With the shit about media manipulation and media play being discovered, I imagine Europe would have social media that are not based in America?
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I’m pretty sure we have mostly the same social media. Though I do think Whatsapp is more common in the Netherlands for chatting with people
In Russia (and I guess all post-Soviet countries) Telegram and WhatsApp are kinda equal in popularity for chatting
Sadly, sovereignty and independence aren’t a strong priority for most European nations. Or European people, for that matter. After all, I’m writing those lines on Reddit for lack of a better alternative
Well, we have Ylilauta here. A local 4chan equivalent but it’s mainstream (but still extremely edgy) nowadays. IRC-galleria used to be popular 15 years ago but eventually Facebook killed it.
edit: Ylilauta even has a section for middle aged mothers escaping from their dying forum. It’s mainly used to gossip about local female lolcows.
Here in Greece most kids have tiktok, most middle aged and progressive people have Instagram, and the older and more conservative people as also the most scam artists, have Facebook.
And everyone uses YouTube.
9gag is pretty popular on meme site, full of user & bot induced propaganda. Americans are there too tho.
We got local language style user driven websites like reddit. In Poland we got wykop.pl, it’s directs to other sites stuff. Mix of heavy propaganda, sponsored articles, political hate-is-my-life individuals & people full of genuine and interesting hobbies. It’s funny. One minute you read about someone bike trip arround Poland, then articles about preserved walled-cities in UK and next shit throwing spitefull article about very minor political topic, with all these hateful comments of people unhappy with their lifes, dealing with it through hate towards others. I imagine other countries have own local language stuff.
maybe a bit offtopic but [wykop.pl](http://wykop.pl) ( Polish reddit) and r/polska is the perfect representation of the horseshoe theory
About the only service that’s more popular in Europe than the USA is WhatsApp. Yes, many of us have unlimited texting plans or whatever, but you can all have the same experience across iPhone / Android without the issues of sending multimedia or picture messages, or trying to coordinate group chats.
The only UK-specific sites I can think of are older, now closed social sites like Bebo and Friends Reunited.
There is a Welsh Twitter ‘clone’ that runs over Mastodon and the Fediverse, it’s called tŵt (or, ‘toot’, in English), and I think some people set up specific Welsh-language servers too.
Your assumption is wrong.
For Sweden and France: all our social media is American, with the exception of TikTok.
It’s quite the same but there seems to be a change with what kind of demographics uses some application:
Here in Belgium, Facebook is still quite popular with Millenials, at least on the french speaking side.
BeReal, TikTok and Instagram are quite popular with my generation. Snapchat is only used by teenagers and drug trafficamt. YoutTube is starting to be known as a mainly nerd media within my generation or at least that’s the feeling I’m getting.
Also BeReal is a french media which has managed to gain tractions all around in the west. So there you go I guess.
Do Americans care about social media manipulation? I would guess it’s the same as in Europe. A minority cares and doesn’t use social media at all or at least very selectively. Most people don’t care about being manipulated, and they couldn’t care less whether a European or an American company is behind the manipulation. Just like most boomers never cared about being manipulated by the evening news or their newspaper of choice.
I’d say most young people in Germany use Instagram, older people Facebook, and the kids Tik Tok.
Not sure how popular other apps are, e.g. Snapchat, Discord is popular among the kids I think (or at least was a few years ago). If you count dating apps, those are widely used too. Reddit is popular among educated young people (as most interesting stuff on here is in English). YouTube across all ages, but hardly anyone uses it actively, most people just passively watch so I’d say it’s not really more of a social medium for most than Netflix. Cool kids don’t use any soci
RIP GesichterParty (“face party”) and WerKenntWen (“who knows whom”). Those were Germany’s versions of Facebook/MySpace, but were replaced by Facebook in the 2010s.
All our social media are either American (Instagram, Facebook etc.) or Chinese (TikTok). The only one I can think of that isn’t from these two countries and kinda popular in the last couple of years is BeReal.
I don’t have any social media, but most people that do have TikTok, Instagram or that shit. Facebook is less and less.
Yeah, yeah, I know, Reddit is social media too some people say but at least it’s anonymous.
Here in Bulgaria the most popular one used to be Facebook but now Instagram and TikTok seem to be preferred more. YouTube I think is used by most people, Reddit and Twitter are pretty niche.
There is Mastodon which is European but most people haven’t even heard of it.
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I’m pretty sure we have mostly the same social media. Though I do think Whatsapp is more common in the Netherlands for chatting with people
In Russia (and I guess all post-Soviet countries) Telegram and WhatsApp are kinda equal in popularity for chatting
Sadly, sovereignty and independence aren’t a strong priority for most European nations. Or European people, for that matter. After all, I’m writing those lines on Reddit for lack of a better alternative
Well, we have Ylilauta here. A local 4chan equivalent but it’s mainstream (but still extremely edgy) nowadays. IRC-galleria used to be popular 15 years ago but eventually Facebook killed it.
edit: Ylilauta even has a section for middle aged mothers escaping from their dying forum. It’s mainly used to gossip about local female lolcows.
Here in Greece most kids have tiktok, most middle aged and progressive people have Instagram, and the older and more conservative people as also the most scam artists, have Facebook.
And everyone uses YouTube.
9gag is pretty popular on meme site, full of user & bot induced propaganda. Americans are there too tho.
We got local language style user driven websites like reddit. In Poland we got wykop.pl, it’s directs to other sites stuff. Mix of heavy propaganda, sponsored articles, political hate-is-my-life individuals & people full of genuine and interesting hobbies. It’s funny. One minute you read about someone bike trip arround Poland, then articles about preserved walled-cities in UK and next shit throwing spitefull article about very minor political topic, with all these hateful comments of people unhappy with their lifes, dealing with it through hate towards others. I imagine other countries have own local language stuff.
maybe a bit offtopic but [wykop.pl](http://wykop.pl) ( Polish reddit) and r/polska is the perfect representation of the horseshoe theory
About the only service that’s more popular in Europe than the USA is WhatsApp. Yes, many of us have unlimited texting plans or whatever, but you can all have the same experience across iPhone / Android without the issues of sending multimedia or picture messages, or trying to coordinate group chats.
The only UK-specific sites I can think of are older, now closed social sites like Bebo and Friends Reunited.
There is a Welsh Twitter ‘clone’ that runs over Mastodon and the Fediverse, it’s called tŵt (or, ‘toot’, in English), and I think some people set up specific Welsh-language servers too.
Your assumption is wrong.
For Sweden and France: all our social media is American, with the exception of TikTok.
It’s quite the same but there seems to be a change with what kind of demographics uses some application:
Here in Belgium, Facebook is still quite popular with Millenials, at least on the french speaking side.
BeReal, TikTok and Instagram are quite popular with my generation. Snapchat is only used by teenagers and drug trafficamt. YoutTube is starting to be known as a mainly nerd media within my generation or at least that’s the feeling I’m getting.
Also BeReal is a french media which has managed to gain tractions all around in the west. So there you go I guess.
Do Americans care about social media manipulation? I would guess it’s the same as in Europe. A minority cares and doesn’t use social media at all or at least very selectively. Most people don’t care about being manipulated, and they couldn’t care less whether a European or an American company is behind the manipulation. Just like most boomers never cared about being manipulated by the evening news or their newspaper of choice.
I’d say most young people in Germany use Instagram, older people Facebook, and the kids Tik Tok.
Not sure how popular other apps are, e.g. Snapchat, Discord is popular among the kids I think (or at least was a few years ago). If you count dating apps, those are widely used too. Reddit is popular among educated young people (as most interesting stuff on here is in English). YouTube across all ages, but hardly anyone uses it actively, most people just passively watch so I’d say it’s not really more of a social medium for most than Netflix. Cool kids don’t use any soci
RIP GesichterParty (“face party”) and WerKenntWen (“who knows whom”). Those were Germany’s versions of Facebook/MySpace, but were replaced by Facebook in the 2010s.
All our social media are either American (Instagram, Facebook etc.) or Chinese (TikTok). The only one I can think of that isn’t from these two countries and kinda popular in the last couple of years is BeReal.
I don’t have any social media, but most people that do have TikTok, Instagram or that shit. Facebook is less and less.
Yeah, yeah, I know, Reddit is social media too some people say but at least it’s anonymous.
Here in Bulgaria the most popular one used to be Facebook but now Instagram and TikTok seem to be preferred more. YouTube I think is used by most people, Reddit and Twitter are pretty niche.
There is Mastodon which is European but most people haven’t even heard of it.