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Re:Dead Internet Theory by flomo on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:13AM (#46675279)
You know Meta, the "social media company" came out and said their users spend less than 10% of the time interacting with people they actually know?

"Social Media" had become a euphemism for 'scrolling ragebait and cats' and has nothing to do 'being social'. There is NO difference between modern reddit and facebook. (And if you are one of the 3% or whatever of old.reddit users, you are probably clueless, like those powermods who got deposed.)

Re:Dead Internet Theory by alex1138 on Monday January 19, 2026 @09:31AM (#46679368)
It would be nice if the social media company actually showed their posts in the feed
Re:Dead Internet Theory by dpkirchner on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:50PM (#46682154)
I'm hopeful that one day engineers at Meta will crack the chronological sort code. It's a tough algorithm but I bet Llama can help 'em out.

Better back button handling and fixing the location bugs in event creation may well be entirely beyond Llama, sadly.

Re:Dead Internet Theory by theshrike79 on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @03:38AM (#46689370)
I don't go to Meta properties to interact with anyone anymore.

Our extended family has a WhatsApp group, but that's about it. I'm not convincing a bunch of 60+ year olds to switch to a new platform they're not used to.

Instagram has been read-only for me for half a decade, I still poke my head on FB now and then to spy on people I used to know.