Social Media Collapse
Jun. 13th, 2023 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grayestofghostsI get home from vacation and many larger subs of Reddit have gone dark, and all I hear about is how people can't search for normal how-tos because Reddit was the big repository for actual questions answered, especially now that Yahoo Answers is gone and almost all hobby forums are gone, disappeared into either Reddit, Discord, or otherwise.
Along with Twitter’s collapse in the last 6 months or so and ChatGPT clogging up SEO with garbage, all of this seems really... bad? Like it was bad enough before with the video takeover (especially because of my disability) but that was somewhat slow-moving and ongoing since about 2016. This is all happening in the matter of months. I know the reddit blackout is temporary but this all seems to bode ill generally with the reveal on how fragile this all is.
I would love it if forums came back, but I don't love that we will probably have to become much more desperate to make the jump back to them. Also a lot of things that made forums go round was free image hosting which is mostly gone outside of social media and let's be real everyone is on mobile devices which makes image upload extremely finnicky outside of apps specialized for it... and this isn't even getting into video.
All through this collapse I'm just watching and helpless. I mean maybe I could look into starting a forum, but what would it be about? I don't trust in my moderating abilities anyway...
I just. Don't like this. Don't like this at all.
Along with Twitter’s collapse in the last 6 months or so and ChatGPT clogging up SEO with garbage, all of this seems really... bad? Like it was bad enough before with the video takeover (especially because of my disability) but that was somewhat slow-moving and ongoing since about 2016. This is all happening in the matter of months. I know the reddit blackout is temporary but this all seems to bode ill generally with the reveal on how fragile this all is.
I would love it if forums came back, but I don't love that we will probably have to become much more desperate to make the jump back to them. Also a lot of things that made forums go round was free image hosting which is mostly gone outside of social media and let's be real everyone is on mobile devices which makes image upload extremely finnicky outside of apps specialized for it... and this isn't even getting into video.
All through this collapse I'm just watching and helpless. I mean maybe I could look into starting a forum, but what would it be about? I don't trust in my moderating abilities anyway...
I just. Don't like this. Don't like this at all.
