okwithmydecay5d ago

Is the UK falling out of love with social media?

https://leminal.space/post/33918374

Is the UK falling out of love with social media? - Leminal Space

Lemmy

Show threadCorporal_Punishment
I never post anything on Facebook and haven’t for years. I only keep it for the local community page,otherwise I’d bin it off
Apr 5 at 7:58amWeb
Show threadcomrade_twisty5d ago
And the local community page is mostly filled with fear mongering, right wing propaganda and bot posts, right?
Show threadCorporal_Punishment5d ago
Nah, its mundane. Generally community notices and things for sale. Sometimes it’ll be a heads up about suspicious people checking door handles or something
Show threadAlex5d ago
Mine has two, one which is very vanilla for local events and the like and has a strict no moaning policy. The other one is where the local gossip is and is as unhinged as you would expect.
Show threaddjdarren5d ago

I keep it for Messenger and because sometimes I need to flog my old shit on Marketplace. But yeah, I’ve not posted on there regularly since 2019.

Meanwhile, I’m almost always on Mastodon and Lemmy.

Show threadIndiBrony5d ago
I stopped using it in 2018. Never looked back.
Show threadFlamekebab5d ago
Yeah, I use it for Marketplace and a wargaming group I admin. Its original use case for me is long gone.
Show threadAlex5d ago

Every now and again I go back to Facebook to see what my more distant friends are doing. I spend about 10 minutes trying to fiddle with my ublock filters trying to hide all the algorithmic content and then give up.

I have private chat groups for various circles of friends and that’s a lot more useful for sharing stuff. We’ll see if they will be persuaded to Signal when the ads start appearing.