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circuitbored
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How are we so complacent with all the broken promises of social media?
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by circuitbored " Fri Jun 19, 2026 6:18 pm
So after many years of being on social media and apps, from Myspace, to Facebook, to YouTube & Instagram, to Twitter, to SnapChat, to TikTok, to BlueSky we all know it started out free, but slowly became a service that consumes a lot of time (and even now money) to participate in.... Time is money to me... (I dunno about yall).
It's crazy how the transition from free service to paid service happened, because as a contributor to some of these apps, I've never earned a dime, and I'm sure many others have not as well. on the flipside, many of us have contributed volumes of labor and the resulting in the very content these sites now sell access to.
I don't know if the world is aware how bonkers it sounds, but to pay for access on apps that rely on crowdsourcing, while they also run ads (collecting massive amounts of money from private companies at the same time as well) is like living in a small town where everyone carries water in buckets from a stream to fill a well, and then has no choice but to pay to get water out of the well for their home use...
These apps also have us convinced that 2-100 views are a lot, so much so that they regularly show videos of people saying to be thankful for low views, but in truth, with millions of viewers, on some apps billions, getting even 1,000 views on a post is probably the wildest free work casino scam ever invented.
I see a lot of low quality & copycat content across apps these days, and it's apparent that people are spamming platforms with anything to get ahead, but it seems like even bots are running rampant on social apps now, this was to be expected, and that's been happening since the days of Internet bulletin boards. By now, with the advent of "Ai" tools, we'd think that apps would have clamped down on inauthentic user accounts, but in truth, it seems like bots have free reign to act as if they're human now more than ever.
I know some will say "Its their site, and they can do what they want to with it", and "If you don't like it, you can go someplace else", but it seems like there's a siege on most social outlets online, which lead to the same results... Lure users in, then show them they don't matter unless they pay.
The other day I saw a video of a musician on TikTok detailing that he paid 5,000 running paid ads to make his song "go viral" on TikTok (200,000 streams), and it made me deeply confused...
"One million streams on Spotify typically generates between $3,000 and $5,000 in total royalties." - Google Gemini
As a musician myself, I know the economics of streaming right now only pays around $600-$1000 for 200,000 streams... This economic picture does not add up here at all. I don't understand how there are legions of people paying for attention that doesn't recoup expenses, while the majority of people contributing serious work (with skills & serious motivations) are being ignored unless they pay for ads, that don't recoup expenses.
It's kind of no wonder why the economy is in shambles right now citing the imbalance in opportunity for the creative and business world on social platforms, which once promised us a world of connection, at no cost to users.
One of the most glaringly obvious scams is the idea that there's a good time to post content on a platform with millions of users or more... As if every single one of their users "keeps the same wake/sleep schedule" around the entire world... if things were honest at all, these apps would be buzzing with activity day and night, and nobody would get less than 10,000 views on each post, even with all the spam and distractions on each platform.
We can't keep falling for these "go viral" schemes, as they're now showing they're more like pyramid schemes run by greedy casino companies, than actual genuinely helpful tools. As Ai is trained upon personal and intellectual data that is contributed to social apps & sites, it is more important than ever to protect our identity, rights, and ideas as well from this hostile world of devaluation of labor, organic online promotion, and our contributed work.
Deregulation has shifted the focus away from fair practices in business, so unfortunately the only way to reign in the greed that's swept through social media companies is to log out en masse, until they operate consistently in a more fair manner, but it's also...