<story><title>Facebook&apos;s TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/07/25/sunset-social-network-facebook-tiktok</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseyross</author><text>It really is weird, isn&amp;#x27;t it? To have what was essentially a solved problem 10 years ago become... what you described.&lt;p&gt;On Facebook&amp;#x2F;Instagram&amp;#x2F;Twitter&amp;#x2F;LinkedIn, I still have tons of people I&amp;#x27;d be interesting in passively keeping up with. Maybe even actively, sometimes. But all that latent sociality is increasingly just dead out of the gate, seeing as I no longer use any of those platforms regularly.&lt;p&gt;My closest friends, the ones I will actually put in effort to talk to? Group chat. The polar opposite of the public social media ecosystem that we used to have. A closed, private space that admits no outsiders, marketers, or clout chasers, but strongly discourages developing relationships with new people or expanding one&amp;#x27;s horizons.</text></item><item><author>xwdv</author><text>It’s crazy to think the social media era may finally be ending. There’s really no viable platform anymore where you can just go passively keep up with what friends and acquaintances are doing. Everything is about feeding you content you didn’t ask for but may be targeted enough to catch your attention.&lt;p&gt;And for what? To show you some ads here and there? To collect data that can be used to… sell more ads and products?&lt;p&gt;Instagram was once my favorite app. There was a golden age before stories came a long where people just posted random pictures of what they were up to or what they were seeing. Things weren’t too memefied or political, unlike Facebook. Then photos got more and more glamorized and more about flexing and showing how much cooler and more awesome your life was. People started following themes and niches for their profile content rather than just posting random unorganized series of photos. Businesses and brands started getting built on the platform.&lt;p&gt;Building an Instagram clone the way it used to be is fairly trivial these days. I could probably throw one together in a few months, but growing its popularity is practically impossible these days with such entrenched incumbents and no niches left to start a user base with.&lt;p&gt;…unless perhaps… we build a social network on the blockchain</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Thorentis</author><text>&amp;gt; A closed, private space that admits no outsiders, marketers, or clout chasers, but strongly discourages developing relationships with new people or expanding one&amp;#x27;s horizons.&lt;p&gt;Sounds wonderful. This is how the vast majority of humans have experienced socialising for the vast majority of human history. And they were happier for it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook&apos;s TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/07/25/sunset-social-network-facebook-tiktok</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseyross</author><text>It really is weird, isn&amp;#x27;t it? To have what was essentially a solved problem 10 years ago become... what you described.&lt;p&gt;On Facebook&amp;#x2F;Instagram&amp;#x2F;Twitter&amp;#x2F;LinkedIn, I still have tons of people I&amp;#x27;d be interesting in passively keeping up with. Maybe even actively, sometimes. But all that latent sociality is increasingly just dead out of the gate, seeing as I no longer use any of those platforms regularly.&lt;p&gt;My closest friends, the ones I will actually put in effort to talk to? Group chat. The polar opposite of the public social media ecosystem that we used to have. A closed, private space that admits no outsiders, marketers, or clout chasers, but strongly discourages developing relationships with new people or expanding one&amp;#x27;s horizons.</text></item><item><author>xwdv</author><text>It’s crazy to think the social media era may finally be ending. There’s really no viable platform anymore where you can just go passively keep up with what friends and acquaintances are doing. Everything is about feeding you content you didn’t ask for but may be targeted enough to catch your attention.&lt;p&gt;And for what? To show you some ads here and there? To collect data that can be used to… sell more ads and products?&lt;p&gt;Instagram was once my favorite app. There was a golden age before stories came a long where people just posted random pictures of what they were up to or what they were seeing. Things weren’t too memefied or political, unlike Facebook. Then photos got more and more glamorized and more about flexing and showing how much cooler and more awesome your life was. People started following themes and niches for their profile content rather than just posting random unorganized series of photos. Businesses and brands started getting built on the platform.&lt;p&gt;Building an Instagram clone the way it used to be is fairly trivial these days. I could probably throw one together in a few months, but growing its popularity is practically impossible these days with such entrenched incumbents and no niches left to start a user base with.&lt;p&gt;…unless perhaps… we build a social network on the blockchain</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>poglet</author><text>I agree. I setup a Discord server for a few friends and it turned out to be infinitely better then current social media platforms when it came to keeping up with what everyone was up to.</text></comment>