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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media (www.businessinsider.com)

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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how "first-gen social media users have nowhere to go." Ouch.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Were BBSs social media?

They were decentralized. If not federated, definitely connected in many aspects.

I was thinking of standing up an instance of this

https://enigma-bbs.github.io/

Just for friends and family

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In of the opinion the term social media needs to be broken into two groups. Ones where you're yourself by name and one's where you're an online handle. The "personal" social media are all garbage, but there's some alright "unpersonal" social media, like Lemmy for example. BBSs would mostly be the later, but probably would be social media if the term existed when they were popular