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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM

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    1 day ago

    I personally blame the iPhone. Shit all started going downhill from then

    • SpacemanSpiff@lemmy.zip
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      4 hours ago

      God what i would do for Nokias to be viable again. I actually still have my old 6085. Looks brand new, still gets 2 weeks of battery. If it wasn’t for banking apps I would still be using that thing

    • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
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      Nope. You got the time period right, but I would like to posit it’s when they started letting our Parents, drunk uncles and dumb ass aunties on Facebook.

      The problem always has, and always will be, Facebook.

      • lordziv@lemmy.nz
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        3 hours ago

        But what made it more accessible and easy to access places like Facebook in the first place? Smart phones.

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        I completely agree. Should have never taught the geriatric community how to access FB

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          Honestly someone should have just whooped Zucks ass and shut down Facebook entirely. It’s whole original premise was scummy and if only got worse. There was data at the time showing how bad it was. The roll out to various colleges was happening at the same time as a nationwide student health and wellness survey. Mental health dropped significantly whenever access was opened to a college.