Social media is no longer social. What now? In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up. Harvard itself had planned to publish a col…
      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        2·
        11 days ago

        Quora is (supposedly) where everyone went after Yahoo Answers closed 5 years ago. Prior to that, it had been (arguably) the better of the two sites with significantly better questions and answers.

        I had an account on YA because I didn’t feel clever enough to have an account there. Maybe I should create one now, ha.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    11 days ago

    This is actually a really interesting article.

    It looks at how social media has evolved, who owns it, and whether it is fundamentally still “social.”

  • technobyte@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    That monthly active users chart can’t be right, it shows YouTube as having ~500 million monthly active users while in reality that’s ~2.6 billion

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
    21·
    10 days ago

    I don’t have an account on any of those platforms. Also, obviously, never use them.

    So…🤷🏻