If scrolling feels more exhausting than entertaining, you're not alone. I feel the same way, and a recent study backs up the sentiment: Social media is losing its fun factor.
  • kboos1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    Because no one fing cares about your hourly updates and you’re just advertising your insecurities.

    Social media is 75% ads, 15% shared content (more ads), and 10% people you know creating actual posts. You’re a gluten for punishment if you hang out there.

      • kboos1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        39 minutes

        Darn it! I’m not changing it. I shall live with my shame of not proof reading

    • grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20 minutes

      That’s how I felt when I tried bluesky. I missed the boat on Twitter and it’d already gone down the shitter so I never tried it. Figured bsky would be an opportunity to try the whole tweeting thing for myself.

      And even still, it was just nothing but political bitching, navel gazing, and glorified (or actual) advertising. Like… what’s the point of it all? Deleted my account within the month.

      Lemmy has its share of faults but at least people are willing to have actual discussions and conversations here. On bsky it felt like talking to a bot. People talking past each other instead of actually communicating.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 hour

    Social media used to be mostly about keeping up with friends. Now it’s about competing with everyone for money and views.

    Big change.

  • Lectral@lemmy.caEnglish
    36 minutes

    For me it’s the idea that by interacting with social media I’m working to generate profit for a billionaire-led company.

  • danielfm123@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2 hours

    Funny, I’m not american, but I’m working on disconnecting my self too, that’s the reason I’m quitting Reddit and I’m here.

    • grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19 minutes

      Reddit’s just so swamped with bots anymore. And even in the small subs where you’re reasonably sure no one’s wasting bots on, the people are just weird.

  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    They’re already trying to track everything I do. Why would I help them?

  • adhdsergio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    Because it’s stupid, you get nothing out of it and you lose time on top

      • justaman123@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        It was cool when it was all us chickens but now it’s like influencers telling your uncle you’re evil and stupid

    • w3dd1e@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4 hours

      Facebook shows an after every two posts in my feed.

    • modus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      From what? Is my mom clicking on that many ads and buying their shit?

      Spoiler: >!Yes she is.!<

      • Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3 hours

        My mom: I don’t want ad blocker I want to see what the ads are selling!

        Also my mom: Malware ridden phone I have to clean every two months

        She has a constant stream of useless, scammy shit from temu ripoffs being sent to her house constantly and I just had to get some AI face filter subscription she swears she didn’t sign up for off her bank account.

        But she’ll constantly tell you how much she hates technology.

        • justaman123@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 hours

          The cringe I crunge at “I want to see what the ads are selling” like that is some straight up boomer mindset, like nothing against your mom, but like it’s insane to me that there’s an entire cohort of people who kind of think this way. Like they always had so much money they needed ads to help them figure out how to spend it. Must have been cool

          • Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1 hour

            Nah, I agree entirely. I cringe very often when in her presence. She is the stereotypical oilfield money boomer.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 hours

    I have 1200 “friends” on Facebook.

    Less than a 10th of them “follow” me.

    Therefore it is and was a literal waste of time to spend any time on their site.

    • w3dd1e@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4 hours

      On top of that if you open Facebook or Instagram, you won’t see a single one of your friend’s posts. You’ll see AI slop, random propaganda or “Influencera” and an ad every two posts.

      You have to search for a friend if you want to find them.

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 hours

    Social media has also done its hardest to try and push people away from using it. Between the culture being awful, and there being an increasing number of roadblocks to using it, that ironically ruins discoverability for anyone who might want to use social media.

    For example, if you want to use Reddit, and see a link, there’s a lot of posts that you can’t see without having an account and logging in. That’s a big ask for something that you’re not even sure that you want to sign up for, which would only be worse since you couldn’t sidestep that using the old reddit interface.

    Meanwhile, Twitter not only makes it so that you can’t see much of anything without being logged in, but they’re trying some new scheme where if you have an account, you need to download the app and give them your biometrics to confirm that you’re human before you can use your account.

    If you’ve scarcely used either site, why would you start now? Everything wants you to jump through more and more hoops to verify that you’re actually a human, and if you don’t have an account, the content that you can see doesn’t seem to much of anything interesting. When not logged in, some subreddit and posts are completely inaccessible, and on Twitter, you can only see the tweet, but not the replies, or recent user posts.

    Both of those were the main draws for each site. Why would any new user want to use them now? The only thing that they have is their reputation, and that will slowly go away with time.

    Once upon a time, for example, Twitter was once the haven for beginner programmers, because they had a nice, free easy-to-use API that anyone could use to make bots and learn how to use APIs in general. Reddit was not far behind that. But that’s mostly gone now. Reddit no longer approves API keys for the most part, and is working to shut down the public APIs that it has left, and Twitter has locked theirs behind a paywall.

    • tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.worldEnglish
      57 minutes

      Reddit is even worse on mobile. They’ve moved to putting up a banner that tells you to use the app. On iOS, it kills the scroll and swiping to go back doesn’t work. Go to the app? Fuck you, log in. Desktop mode is rough on mobile and they’re already talking about nuking old.reddit.com now.

      • grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16 minutes

        Old reddit is the only way I interact with the site at all, and only for communities and stuff that for whatever reason haven’t moved on to greener pastures. Once old reddit’s gone I guess I’ll finally move that site into the graveyard.

        It was a cool place while it lasted.

    • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2 hours

      maybe we could help handing them nails to their coffin. Lets start demanding they add even more obnoxious things. Like for reddit, make even more posts no visible to those who are not logged in, have premium members be even more exclusive and away from the view. That should be a decent blow to any new people considering to join there since why would they want to do it if they cant even see what is there. And lets say they do it anyway and maybe even pay something, they will just get shit that isnt worth their money or they are kind of people that make it even worse place.

      it could be sold to the crazier users as a way for them to be oh so exclusive and vip users so they would join in too. The executives would likely be extatic to see people demand same kind of shit they would want to put in anyway.

      I dont know enough about facebook or shitter to have any ideas how to make them even worse, but for sure there is room there too.

      Worse commercial social media becomes the better since it will push people away and eventually make it crumble.

  • TomMasz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8 hours

    It was all over when Facebook introduced the algorithmic timeline. It’s just taken a while for people to notice how awful it’s made everything.

    • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      That was what got me off - I kept feeling like I had to scroll much farther back to see the updates from friends I missed past what FB decided I should see, until I decided Facebook had made it no longer worth the effort

  • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
    7 hours

    No mention of centralised versus decentralised social media. The thing that makes the biggest difference. No ads. No algorithm. No lock in, swap networks keeping friends and followers. Tune your timeline to suit you. Calling everything social media is trash journalism when those issues are already solved. Clearly he has no clue about the topic.

  • roundabout@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7 hours

    I dropped off Twitter in 2020 and finally deleted instagram and Facebook by 2025.

    I had friends on twitter and really enjoyed talking to people but after COVID hit there was something evil out of that site that hit me real bad and I started losing friends as I was concerned for loved ones health around me and everyone else wasn’t. So I left. There were other things I didn’t like on twitter but I figured it was just me. I guess it wasn’t. Instagram I never posted on but Facebook I was active until late 2020. Active arguments with people through 2020, trying to plead with friends and family to be cautious didn’t do much so I gave up talking and my Facebook on stayed active to talk to my father. Moved him to discord in 2025 and deleted Facebook then.

    I’m sure looking back there were more platform specific things that I didn’t like but I know it’s only worse now. My best friend has stated multiple times that twitter doesn’t care about what’s posted anymore so you’ll see illegal videos of death all the time. Once you realize that social media (like that) breeds a kind of conflict with those around you, it’s much less fun.

    These days I only have signal and this. Delete discord back in March lol

  • outerspace@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10 hours

    Back in the day, I posted on Instagram to share things with my friends and scrolled to see their updates. The chronological feed with no suggested posts was the only way it worked, and now that’s impossible. There are no “people” on Instagram anymore.

    • nullspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      What happened to Facebook is happening to Instagram. What used to be just a feed of my friends is now a bunch of suggested posts from accounts I don’t follow. It gives me a feeling of having my own friends used as bait for them to churn more content, souring the whole experience.

      • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4 hours

        Makes sense. It’s the same company now, and they’re going to “reuse” patterns and stuff that they feel worked for Facebook and bring it over to instagram.