It’s been some time since I have been active on mainstream social media. Honestly I don’t even post here or lurk here, but quality of discussions is better here than reddit so I do occasionally log in.
Why I am asking this question is, whenever I am traveling now a days, I am seeing lesser people scrolling instagram reels. Earlier it was 7 out of every 10 person, it’s now becoming like 5 or 4. And on reddit it no longer feels like real people are talking there. Are you people observing the same too?
Yes it might not fit asklemmys guidelines, I just didn’t know better place to ask it
Think of it the same way as huge companies appearing in town and suddenly smaller, independent businesses begin to vanish.
Thirty years ago, people made their own web sites. They either bought their own domains or did the Geocities/Angelfire thing. Today, those same people have instagram, Pinterest…any number of social media accounts, and that scratches the same itch as having your own web site used to. Lemmy is part of that trend too. So independent web sites with their own quirky character and unique content are fewer, and those people have been absorbed into the big spaces where they struggle to get noticed.
It’s also really annoying because even if you do make your own website, like unless you do something that draws attention on some other, more populated website, pretty much no one’s ever gonna find you.
https://neocities.org/