I really started to just use Lemmy as a option b, rather than the main social media I use.
After Lemmy thankfully reached more than 50k active users, the closure of Lemm.ee is expected to lower this number by a lot.
Furthermore, I started to think about what would happen if my current instance got shutdown, as all my communities will be finished and all my activity will be useless.
The whole situation feels hopeless in social media as there is no valuable community-focused social media service to actually replace Reddit for once and for all.
The death of social media is kind of fueling the death of human to human communication.
Currently people are shopping, working, learning and enjoying with almost zero human interaction.
I am expecting a very bad event here. I predict that within the next 10-15 years, there will be a large amount of people who will finish high school without meeting a single human outside their family, that will lead to a generation which will be unable to express their feelings or talk and make relationships.
Over the long term, this is going to make the world worse.
Anyway, I just wanted to write my thoughts here.
Unsure if social media is dying but in no way would I consider it a replacement for meeting real humans offline.
Hell, if there's less social media, maybe people finally go and meet more people and while with those people, stay off their phones.