ThePantser comments on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 100 points 1 year ago (30 children)

Young people decide what's popular, if you fuck it up they will bail for another platform. Hopefully someone spins up a competitor quickly to grab the people in between the forced "new app"

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[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 133 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Dude Facebook hasn't been cool in a decade and it's still very much a thing

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It’s alive due to Messenger and Marketplace.

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[–] presbypenguin@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

God, I miss Craigslist.

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Craigslist still exists. Use it.

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[–] presbypenguin@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Craigslist exists like my totaled car exists: yeah, it's technically there, but it's a shell of itself and doesn't actually have anything worthwhile. Maybe in large metros it's still a viable option, but even in a 250,000 people metro it's a ghost town.

Can't buy things if no one is selling there, can't sell things if no one is buying there.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I just bought a great bike using Craigslist in February. Maybe it's a locality thing, folk use a different platform near you but it still gets plenty of traffic here.

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[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I hate that I had to use Facebook market as it was probably the first time I had logged in in years. But there were easily 20x more results when I was looking for a server rack on there than CL.

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[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I still use Craigslist! Have alerts set up right now

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Craigslist is still around although not as active as Facebook Marketplace.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 year ago (8 children)

wait until the boomer generation stops using it...

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[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 54 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I've been waiting for the boomer generation to stop any of what they're doing for 30 years. I suspect they'll still be a viable political bloc for the next 20 years. And even then, gen x and gen z will pick up right where they left off.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

Genz conservative voters tend to be more right wing than their parents or boomers family. That's why they want to target the younger population

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[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The mass die-off of boomers will be a great thing. They ain't all bad, but they are the worst generation. Absolute poison.

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[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Based on my parents, I’m pretty sure it’s genx keeping it alive.

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[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

At least in 50 more years humanity will finally be free of Zuckerberg

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[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I don’t think that will be enough time…

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Lol, you mean when they die? Yeah, that's not a bad point. They aren't getting any younger.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

the dieing days are here for the first wave of boomers and it's only going to increase.... day by day

im genx and I'm of the opinion that my parents and their generation are the most selfish and most self centered generation in the history of this country. They spoiled their opportunities to do what they thought was right as young people.... so some genxrs are also pieces of shit but most people of my generation understand we are a skipped generation and the young people are the future. We are not like our parents that is for sure.

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[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just had this funny thought— so boomers adopted and settled into Facebook after millennials made it popular. And then everyone except for boomers stopped actively using it. It’s kind of their “retirement social media platform.”
Now you have TikTok, which the millennials flocked to after GenZ popularized it. Does this mean after Gen Z flees the platform that it’s just going to be the Facebook equivalent for millennials?

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[–] DirtMcGirt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I dunno.. I'm a millennial and no one I know uses TikTok, they all use Instagram.Anecdotal, sure, but still.

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

I'd say the biggest difference is that Millennials tend to be more aware that Boomers of who else is actually using the platform and why, and to have/acquire knowledge about other platforms and transition to something new.

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'd be genuinely curious what the real age demographic of regular Facebook users is in America, but I highly doubt Meta would ever release those figures.

Doubt they can even sort out who is and isn't a not, themselves

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[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 74 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You're underestimating the propaganda machine . All those right-wing influencers didn't get to the top of every chart because young people decided them to be popular.

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Susan Wojiciki genuinely spearheaded the rise of the far right on social media by giving endless support and exposure to the likes of the Paul brothers, Mr.Beast, and right wing commentators who regularly broke ToS but rarely if ever got banned or demonitized for it.

She truly was the Ronald Reagan of social media personalities. May she burn in Hell.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago