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
I think the internet is changing, but maybe not in the way people think. What feels emptier is the centralized platforms. Mastodon, Lemmy, and other fediverse spaces are actually getting more interesting because you can find communities that care about depth. But yes, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram those places are hollowed out by algorithms. You are right to notice that. I am working on something to help map where people actually agree and disagree, instead of what algorithms surface.
I may be curious, are you working on something like software or something like research? And when you say to map where people agree/disagree, do you mean in general or specifically their agreement/disagreement of how they perceive the Internet is changing?