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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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Yeah, it is a bit strange. That was a central hub of where I got news, jokes, stayed connected with internet culture. That's mostly gone now. So many things feel splintered anymore. I'm old so I don't keep up with the latest games, but that feels all over the place---too many games, too many communities. Streaming/TV stuff---very few people I know watch the same things I do, and I miss the joy of watching something new and then talking about it the next day moments. Worse now is that most people can't even access the same content since there are too many services. Music is strange now too. Partly, I'm just not connected to pop culture, but also everyone is listening to VERY different stuff (referring to college-age folks---most other millennials I know just listen to NPR, podcasts and 90s mixes). There doesn't seem to be any monolithic music culture at all anymore. Everyone has super customized spotify playlists. I know a big part is just millennial aging, but also reddit kept me connected to broader things, and now its just like everything else and enshittified and disappearing. sigh ... get off my lawn I guess :(
Its returned closer to what the internet was BEFORE reddit. People cultivated lists of bookmarks for sites they'd visit for their daily special interests. Lemmy is still a larger audience than what we had before. For jokes you might go to fark.com or somethingawful.com. These were the user driven humor aggregators of the day.
I would love to see someone born into today's internet landscape try to entertain themselves with lowtax's poorly written essays about hentai and his beginner knowledge of ww2 tanks.
I've noticed this too. In some ways it makes it harder to find new music.
Makes it harder to find popular music, but way easier to find music that appeals to you personally
Yes, when I come across something I am not familiar with I have a preset playlist of enough things to really get a feel for the style and know if I like any of it.
Honestly I'm probably just going to keep mining the 60s-00s for music like I always have. Now that I have a job and less time to find music I'll probably never run out lol
It really is a bit weird when people ask me what kind of music I like and I have to think of a way to describe my 1.3k video YouTube playlist of random genre and time period music that I have found in the most random places
I just say shitty indie metal and folk. Folks usually losee interest, or they become curious and find out about Hulkoff and holy locust.
Can you link both of those bands?
(https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCT_NhVY2IYvjTsn0HUsd9Jg) [Hulkoff] (https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCzkRX3sC7hV7O1MKWpM5Aiw) [Holy Locust]
Hulkoff was pretty cool, very artistic too (I enjoyed the video I watched. Holy Locust was definitely a bit more folksy, I kind of liked it too.
Glad ya liked my taste in music dude.
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thanks!