• pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Same. I got on it in 2006 and it was great up until about 2010, 2013-2014 was when the shit started to hit the fan.

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      6 months ago

      2013-2014 was when the timeline shifted from being a chronological timeline to a feed. The algo took over and it went to shit.

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        6 months ago

        yeah. the platforms aren’t so bad in and of themselves, it’s the engagement algorithms that turn everything to shit.

        just like IG, YT, video/music stremaing etc. you could stumble upon random and interesting shit… now the algo is just trying to shove kendrick lamar and joe rogan at me none stop because that is what is ‘popular’ and whatever shitty movie that netflix is trying to promote.

        browsing is dead and search is also mostly broken. you can’t even effectively search for shit anymore.

        the only place i can freely browse anymore is my local library. and discover lots of cool things. that experience on the internet is dead.