Dagamant

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[–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that was the moment it changed from a social media platform to an advertising platform.

[–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago (3 children)

When social media started it focuses on friends. You add someone as a friend and you could see what they were up to.

Then Facebook came along and made it competitive, it became less about seeing what friends were doing and more about posting things that people liked.

As Facebook grew, it changed. One day you didn’t see the stuff your friends posted unless you constantly interacted with their posts or a lot of other people did.

It’s gotten worse and worse since then. They have added more and more ads and posts from people and pages you might know that you no longer see stuff from people you do know.

It’s absolutely worthless.

[–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

Here is how it has gone down for a few companies I have visibillity on:

  • Investors with enough stock to have influence demand the company use AI and cut staff
  • remaining ataff struggles to fit AI into their now bloated workload
  • quality slips and stumbles. a few employees are able to make the transition and cause huge AI bills while attempting to cover the workload
  • everyone gets upset and nothing gets done well

It looks like investors who have also invested in AI are trying to push its use and it is stumbling all over the place. If a company cant adapt it is basically stripped for parts and sold off to companies that are handling it better.