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The original Facebook was something we’ll never get back (www.theverge.com)
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[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks

[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

The only correction i'd do to this message is to stop calling this person "Zuck", Mark Zuckerberg IS NOT YOUR FRIEND, stop calling these fucking bastards cutesy friend names or on a first name basis (like "Elon", Zuck" and others like this) , they DO NOT deserve them and they WANT to be called that

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago

I dislike the whole concept of "social media" in the Facebook sense.

I think the ideal form of "social media", which was also popular in 2004, was the web forum. I want that back, not something where I have to follow people, but something where I can meet and find people with common interests and discuss those interests with them.

[-] Subtex@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

There was an article recently talking about how forums are still around. Has a decent list too:

https://aftermath.site/best-active-forums-internet-today

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

Now how about forum signatures?

boots up cracked Photoshop

[-] bownage@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

Omg I miss making forum signatures!!! My fav part about it honestly

[-] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't forget it also created a 5-10 year period of otherwise-tech-illiterate ditsy chicks with comm or marketing degrees rebranding themselves as "Social Media Marketing Expert", because they knew what buttons to click in Facebook UI.

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Defrauding corporations sounds like praxis to me.

[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 2 points 9 hours ago

Cringe

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 day ago

Hey, don't be sexist. There's plenty of otherwise-tech-illiterate ditsy dudes in the same work pool.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago

That's because it was in it's money-losing "growth" phase. The Facebook we have today was always the point.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 31 points 1 day ago

Years ago it was really interesting, could follow all my friends and see what they were up to. Now it's ads, suggested content and sometimes, accidentally, I can see some uninteresting post from someone I barely know

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

My feed is aware of my politics and throws everyone I'm friends with or follow (and some who I've unfollowed) who wrote something objectively wrong or stupid that's biased the other way politically.

It's literally all rage bait unless I go in and manually block it from showing me those people at all.

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 31 points 1 day ago

The original Facebook was just "hot or not" for a college campus, and required invites.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

Yeah; my reaction to the headline was “…and good riddance?”

I never signed up for Facebook in the first place because I knew some of the people involved in the original Facebook. I didn’t want them getting their hands on my personal info because I knew what they’d do with it… and they did.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The whole "one individual talking to another" aspect of the internet of the 00s is gone. It feels more and more like an "everyone is talking to you and hearing you, like it or not". Facebook is only an example of that - and even if it didn't enshittify, I find unlikely that it would've kept that aspect.

I also wonder if my experiences with Orkut wouldn't be similar to the ones of the author with FB, if only Google didn't kill Orkut. (It was a big thing here.)

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

I've actually considered starting a Friendica or other instance exclusively for friends and family to share pictures and communicate, invite only...

... But even if I managed the insane technical aspects and convinced people to try it, I only fear the mainstream social media giants have already trained them to be their worst selves at this point. I can see the bickering drama threads now, eating up my gigabytes...

I just hate how fragmented and walled the most connected Internet ever is...I felt more connection when I had everyone between Yahoo and MSN Messengers, or took the time to check out friends' MySpace pages.

[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago

It's not gone, it has gone underground, i like this model to describe the current internet

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

My peeve with the illustration there is that it shows the dark forest (adtech shit and bots) as separate from the cozy web (chat streams like discord, slack, whatsapp), because said streams are largely run by the dark forest.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

That's a great analogy. And a fair point - it got burrowed, but it's still there.

At least when we deal with individuals using the platform. The platform is still listening to you, and sharing it with advertisers; that's the whole model behind Meta (WhatsApp) and Snapchat. They're still hearing you, and want to talk with you (shhh, I've heard you bought [product]? Here are some offers for even more [product]!), regardless of what you want.

[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago

And that's one of the many reasons why we want private communications, we want no creepy megacorp listening in

[-] AlexanderESmith@social.alexanderesmith.com 4 points 1 day ago

I have plenty of Discord and Matrix rooms where I'm specifically there to talk to - and be talked to by - a select group of specific people.

It might a practice I maintain because I (and those people) have been with the Internet since before AOL.

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