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.

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.

    • NotNotMikeEnglish
      401·
      1 year ago

      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

      • SavoryBaconStrip@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

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

        • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.mlEnglish
          21·
          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.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.eeEnglish
          3·
          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

    • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Never heard of it either, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is some kind of PR for it!

      • kamenLady.@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        Same - but after diggin’ a little i found that there’s already a new app called beFake. With beReal you have to take a photo when prompted - it takes 2 photos - back and front - so people can see you and what you are looking at. Filters are now allowed.

        I think the point of this app, is to show yourself as you are in the location you happen to be in that moment, unfiltered

        If you don’t take the pics when prompted, you loose points, credit or karma ( don’t know what they call their virtual point system )

        beFake ist the opposite, the logic is the same - yo get prompted to take the pics - but here you have an AI Image generator, to which you have to tell in what fake world you want to be portrayed in and you can ( or must ) filter yourself to the max lol