Yeah I am sure some people do that. But I wouldn’t. Some people eat dirt too.

And you have a weird world view if you think being social is leaving posts on a forum to reply to some rando you will never know.

Annonymity is extremely important. I don’t know you, you don’t know me. Nothing I say matters, nothing you say matters. There is no tone, no personality, just words. You could be a liar or a bot, it makes zero difference.

That isn’t very social at all.

I disagree. Billions are being made, data centers and AI machines are being built that use the electricity that could power 50 million homes, and that is Meta ALONE. Your tattoo artist and musicians are perpetuating it. Oh well, they don’t need my business. I don’t support people that do that.

If people keep saying “but I have to”, then fuck it, meta won.

No. There is no valid reason to use it. All this does is continue to enable a massive AI data center and Zuckerbergs billions. Walking away is the only viable option. It needs to go away, stop helping it remain.

Edit: Why would any one argue with this? Unless you are a billionaire, use of this shit is hurting you. Your environment, AI slop, your politics for fucks sake. Continued use is making your life worse for the sake of a handful of people enriching themselves from it, and you don’t care?

No. I am reading an aggregation forum, and getting clarity and insights from the comments. I barely am interacting with anyone.

Look, this term didn’t even exist until the mid 90’s and didn’t take off in common use until the mid 2000’s.

The difference is Lemmy is topic centered thread first, discussion last, where social media is basically a self publishing, identity first platform. People put shit on instagram and facebook because it is about them (mostly). Here it is just news/stories with comments. And anonymity, which is what makes it all work.

I consider everyone here the same way I did when I was on a bbs: they are liars. Modern twist: they are liars and bots. Everyone is bullshitting and saying whatever they want, this is hardly a social event.

That seems to be a you problem.

That isn’t a problem, it is by design. I don’t want to follow you or anyone else. I don’t want to promote myself either. I absolutely do not want to make any connections with people here. I read the aggregated subject feeds, I get clarity or insights from the comments. And that is where it ends. Anonymity makes this all work.

Social networking is about connecting people

Well Lemmy is not about that at all. I know absolutely Zero people from lemmy.

What is the social part? I change my name daily, and dont really give a shit about people following me.

Why? Fuck Instagram.

I was serious that year over year, revenue for Minecraft has been falling. That is true.

But I also am serious that when Microsoft forced everyone to switch from a mojang account to a Microsoft account that also lost many players.

Bonus: Microsoft can go fuck themselves, I don’t want any thing to do with them.

Microsoft killed it. Can’t play without a Microsoft account, so it is dead to me. And a lot of other people too.

Yep. The masses like crap, what can you say.

Still revenue has been falling for years so maybe the movie isn’t the best guage?