The emergence of social media has destroyed all the small communities to standardize communication and information.

It’s a bit of a digital version of rural exodus. And since 2017/2018, I’ve noticed that everything that, in my opinion, represented the internet has disappeared.

I’ve known Lemmy for a few hours and I feel like I’m back in the early spirit of the internet.

  • steeznson@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    “Social media” is a really vague term. I think there are broadly 3 categories:

    • Web2.0 social media: facebook, twitter, discord, reddit

    • Forums: Old school web fora, (mastodon & lemmy?)

    • Debateable social media: IRC, email chains/threads

    Only the first category is relatively new and has captured the attention of the general public outside of nerds. The other two are either decentralised or are niche centralised sites. IMO it seems like the web 2.0 stuff is most problematic but not sure if it’s the hyper-centralisation or their general popularity that is the issue.