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No. 692269
>>692217Was ello the supposedly really exclusive website that you had to receive an invite to join? I guess part of the idea was to create a chain of people inviting new users, but it just seemed dumb.
If that’s the site I’m thinking of, I did actually join. I was too shy to ask anyone on tumblr for a referral, so I applied to join on the website even though they said they didn’t often approve users this way. Approved quickly, set up my page, realised it was boring as fuck and promptly left.
No. 692332
tumblr from 2010-2012 was peak internet imo. I know it's still there but it got sick when it got infested with the woke sjw cesspool and died with banning "female representative nipples".
last.fm used to be really cool too, with lots stuff to discover with their radio stations dedicated to music bands or genres but as far as I know they do not do it anymore and is in times of spotify and other streaming services really outdated.
instagram is currently an interesting one because I feel with the most recent updates they really pushed a lot of people away, because it moves more and more away from its og idea and people hate lol. I guess they will stay until there will be another image charing site without "reels" and the "shopping button".
also rip vine
>>692301>I will never understand why Facebook replaced it.video related explains its rise and fall pretty well. But to make it short: People felt like it was cleaner looking and safer than myspace that had a lot of security issues going on.
No. 692445
>>692217I want reddit to die too, but I don't think it'll happen soon. I think the old users are just going to be put off by all the changes they're making (redesign, ads, banning subreddits) and the new userbase of teenagers who make shitty posts everywhere. It'll just become a website for normies.
>>692267A lot of my peers have also abandoned Facebook along with Twitter. I'm not sure what social media app my age group prefers now (early 20s). I'm guessing Instagram or they just stopped giving a shit about social media and just text eachother. Anyways, I find I'm actually starting to prefer Facebook again for the groups. They feel comfier and more social to me compared to subreddits or forums.
No. 692846
>>692789Yes, I loved reading people’s random blogs, even the crazy ones with schizo chans or conspiracy nuts. I like seeing people’s passions.
I can’t imagine youtube lasting another five years. Pretty sure they’re gonna try to find a way to make you pay for the whole goddamn app/site, not just premium.
Most social media nowadays is pretty boring, too much sperging, and too obviously fake to enjoy or take seriously.
No. 692935
>>692789God, yes. I'm an oldfag who was hooked on Livejournal in the 00's and I still miss that time. Instead of dropping shitty twitter takes in less than 200 characters you usually had to write an entry that had some amount of substance. A lot of my friends got creative too, they posted photos of places they've been to, drawings, edits, music playlists, shared their thoughts in depth and overall just put a lot more effort into it. Customizing the layout was also really fun.
I'm predicting that social media will die in the 2020's because it's become too corporate driven. The appeal of it in the beginning was that you could meet real people and interact with regular folks just like you, but now corporations have taken over and the algorithms favor their content over small creators who get banned by the abusing of the DMCA reporting system or similar loopholes. For the past few years I've barely used social media platforms anymore because it really feels like that the moment you post something it no longer belongs to you. I'd say independent homepages, forums and blogs might make a comeback because people are getting sick of having their data and identity in the hands of big corporations.
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I have so many thoughts on this topics that I'll share later but for now I will just say that I think youtube as we know it is gonna die and will be used differently, I will elaborate later.
( I miss the edit comment feature from forums where you could hold a place for later. )
No. 693056
>>692789I miss livejournal so much. It used to be where my best friends and I hung out and updated each other on our daily lives, and we learned basic web design/html from designing our lj layouts, but aside from that I found great fun in reading the ljs of certain fic writers I liked. Their prose was so well-thought-out and enjoyable regardless of the subject matter, to the point where I enjoyed reading about their lives.
>>692935 was right; Twitter forces you to make shitty takes in under 280 characters, but lj gave creatives real freedom.
No. 2019845
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Did yall play transformice?
No. 2019893
I think instagram will take a huge blow this decade, it’ll become kind of like facebook in the sense a lot of people have it but don’t really use it.
>>2019832There’s still some around, idk about English ones but there’s quite a few ones in my country that are still really active after 2 decades. You have to look for them a bit but it’s worth it.
No. 2020317
>>2019845omg yes!!!
i had my first esex on there>>2019894i don't think it did? you can download it on steam for free. it's less active, sure, but still kicking
No. 2020398
>>2019799The scammy crypto, get rich quick, and vitamin ads definitely add to the malware feel.
>>2019893I can't even see why anybody new would sign up for Instagram. There's no way to look for new things, and the algorithm completely 100% buries your posts unless you already have thousands of followers. I hate to praise tiktok, but if you open an account there and post anything borderline competent, you will get real people looking at it.
No. 2020801
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Going on quizilla in the computer lab with your besties to find out which transformer or member of panic at the disco you are
No. 2021169
>>2020875I'm so glad gaia is still alive. I occasionally visit it just to look at the avis and cackle about decade old discussions.
I also still have all my habbo stuff from 2007, I wish I could just sell it for irl money.
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No. 2021283
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anyone here also used poupeegirl? There was a time when I basically lived on this website and I had some besties there that chatted with on a daily basis. It was a fun with a lot of cool collabs with brands but it went down hill when they introduced the two class system with stuff that you could buy with real money which of course was a lot prettier than the normie stuff. Then I remember they kind of stopped the communication with it's users and then I stopped using it bc people were slowly leaving. Wiki says that it died in 2015 after two years of no updates.
No. 2021303
>>2021169Isn’t Habbo still alive or is it only iOS based now?
>>2020316You can imitate a forum look on Discord, it can be done but most are lazy.
>>2021283I played a bit but they were already pushing cash items at the time.
No. 2068661
>>2068237it's become reelstagram and it's a tragedy
should I just make a tiktok account at this point?
the final blow for me was when they fucked up the timeline
and recently they don't allow viewing only recent posts, that was the nail in the coffin for a lot of people
No. 2068915
>>2068880I curate a list of events related to a particular hobby that happen in my community, and for some reason the younger event hosts only ever announce their events on Instagram, and sometimes only in the stories at that! The only reason I still have Instagram is because I need an account to view and search posts on there, and searching is pointless now as Instagram largely shows me popular posts from events that happened years ago, probably back when more people were on the platform. I wish I could talk some sense into the younger people in my community that are still posting on there. They want people to show up for their events, but no one can even see their announcements without Instagram. They need to be posting in more than one place as well, but they just don't get it. It is the same with businesses who only post on Facebook. If someone doesn't have an account, they won't be able to see the weekly menu or the store hours. Yes, Facebook pages are free, but I miss when businesses used to have their own websites, even if they were just blogs on Wordpress.
>>2021283Someone made a clone of the site that you can still play on today called Bentewee, but I have no idea what it's like as it requires messaging the admin on twitter for a join code.