Everything’s about creating and consuming shit or just keeping up with whatever the fuck the people we already know is doin, i miss the days when you could find a random chatroom with 4 people and be friends with three of em through shared hobbies, i doubt there’s any such thing anymore but if there is feel free to suggest .

  • dwt@feddit.orgDeutsch
    2·
    49 minutes ago

    Have you tried the fediverse yet? I happen to particularly like Lemmy.

  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    3 hours ago

    That is because corporations took over the internet. Those chatrooms you mention were created by a hobbyist with no expectation to earn a living from it. Just wanting to make a fun experience for people.

  • stoicEuropean@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 hours ago

    Im with you. And i think social media didnt stop being social by accident. Once a platform becomes expected to grow forever:

    • People stop being the product’s purpose and become a resource to extract value from
    • Communities become audiences
    • Conversations become content
    • Hobbies become enshittified engagement metrics

    Id argue that the internet didnt suddenly forget how to be social, but that it was purposfully optimized not to be.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    if it’s possible to make money out of your hobby, capitalism will always be there to enshitify it and that’s how you know you can trust lemmy since there’s no money to be made out of leftism.

  • agentTeiko@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    Well to clarify what you are talking about is not social media. Chatrooms are not social media. Also not of that stuff went away. IRC is still a thng. You have Instant Messaging with stuff like signal or matrix. All these are communication platforms. Social media is about status or with a few producers (influencers) and a bunch of consumers(followers). The biggest lie told by social media companies was it was a reflection of reality where its more inline with reality TV. Edited in such a way to invoked an emotional response from the audience for profit.