oh awesome Tumblr ads are auto playing WITH SOUND now
I think social media is done for. All it is (or ever was for that matter) is just way to make pennies off of people. And they weren’t satisfied with just that. They need every penny.
So here it goes. Everything just eventually turns into the most efficient data mining rig, sacrificing the main point of why people used social media in the first place. Enshitification.
I remember I deleted my Facebook account over this exact same fucking thing.
Fuckbook was always a data mine. Twitter, well, is having a Moment. Discord is changing things just for the sake of changing things to appease venture capital. Reddit is going public and is burning all of its bridges in the progress. deviantArt used to be a functional art gallery. FurAffinity is ran by fucking morons. Tumblr used to be fun to use. But now it’s running down the same path demanded by capitalism. Infinite growth.
(not the fun kind)Keep adding features and hope it adds users. Keep changing things for the sake of changing them. Not listening to the main users of your platform, alienating them. All for a ruse that promises a few extra pennies.
And the thing that makes me angrier; it fucking works.
Netflix stopped people from sharing accounts. This caused the highest sign-up numbers for Netflix ever in the past 4 years. The children have forgotten how to yar har.*People who use Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, or Discord are stuck there. Whether they’re just addicted or have friends who are only there and won’t move on to something better. It’s even hard for me.
Just. Fuck all of this. I just need to get a flip phone and an iPod and call it a day. I don’t need this anymore.
Please join a Fediverse project. It’s the only social media you can use without having to sell your soul first.
*edit - that “news” “"article”“ that claimed that Netflix accounts jumped was actually marketing from an analytics company and lies by omission.