It’s more insidious than dead internet theory. Imagine any significant social media platform containing a large proportion of users that can be directly prompted to tout any message, or mass downvote opinions that the company doesn’t like. All this can happen while the company claims to be a “free speech platform”.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Like some kind of necromancer and their army of undead.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

But not even cool. :(

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair: The boomers still crawling on Facebook can be considered dead in some way.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Them and alot of Millenials unfortunately, I quit FB about 9 years ago and when ever I run into someone I know they always wonder why I'm not on FB anymore.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

link

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Speedrunning the Dead Internet theory.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Wait, what? They are planning on doing that?That's crazy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

why would that even be beneficial for Facebook?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because they’re reaching a point where the amount and quality of user generated content is not enough to retain the remaining users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

they have 3 billion users though??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

3 billion registered accounts is not the same as 3 billion individual active users. Most people don’t delete their account when they stop using a platform.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The boomers yearn for the Shrimp Jesus