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It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore (www.businessinsider.com)
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It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore::Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

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[–] notnotmike@programming.dev 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My Zoomer sister-in-law told me about it. It's an app that will randomly prompt everyone to take a picture using both the front and back cameras and you have a limited amount of time to do it. The idea being that because it's random you can't really prepare anything beforehand so the content is more "real" and everyone can see what they all do day to day

I'm a fan of the reality part but not so much a fan of allowing your life to be timed by a social media company

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is the zoomerest shit that ever zoomed.

[–] Koboldschadenfroh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There's an app and a market for EVERYTHING, I guess.

[–] SavoryBaconStrip@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention most pictures end up being the same. Everyone sitting at their desks or pictures of their dogs.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

With the right algorithm (upvotes and downvotes, top, hot), the majority of posts you would see would be real and also interesting. I guess it would also need to be less exclusive by default, so that the highest rated posts are always the most interesting ones.

[–] n0m4n@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Asking for a friend, what is there to prevent wanna-be influencers getting some shots set up, for quick selection of a paired set and uploading that? Bereal, by it's very name, is a challenge to game the app.

[–] Surdon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

As far as I know, it only uses the camera, and doesn't use stored photos. Idk, I've never downloaded it but that's my guess