Does anyone remember sixdegrees.com?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com
As far as I remember that was the first social media website.
Is this the end of social networking?
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> People want their bubbles. We’re all here on HN for that exact purpose. 100% disagree. I'm here to find ideas I disagree with and tell people how they're wrong. I'm not looking for an agreeable experience here. I'm also here to learn about new tech.
I 100% disagree with your idea that you, or anyone for that matter, is just here to disagree with other people’s ideas. Nobody disagrees with stuff just for the sake of disagreement. Who would do such a thing? Don’t bother answering that question though because you’d be wrong.
I have a feeling that a lot of people replying to you completely missed what you were doing with your comment. That's a shame, because well done.
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#193I can't avoid thinking how the first mover disadvantage here worked in killing the first mainstream video-first platform: Twitter's vine. Vine wasn't exactly like TikTok, it was 1 generation removed, but it didn't sustained itself - and changed - to become today's tiktok
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#194> [TikTok]'s addiction-based advertising machine is probably close to the theoretical maximum of how many advertisements one can pour down somebody’s throat. Well put. It's interesting that we pivoted in my adult lifetime from: 1. Myspace's emphasis on sharing things on your own webpage, essentially a hosted blog 2. Facebook's evolution from "hosted blog" to "friend update aggregator" to "chat client" to "friend upda…
TikTok is an entertainment platform, not really social media.
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#195Discord is becoming huge - just people, chatting. Like it was when I started using internet and IRC
Doesn't everything on Discord go into a black hole? You can't search it with search engines.
Can't search Facebook or TikTok with a search engine. For a lot of people this is a benefit.
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Look at monica crm https://github.com/monicahq/monica . I've yet to offer to start hosting it for people, but that could be a neat conversation piece for changing the tides there.
I think the GP’s point was that social relationships are increasingly becoming irrelevant to people. Having a personal relationship CRM seems cool, but this shift in society is happening not for lack of good social tools.
In my view this shift is happening because of social media. The social media short cut to having friends turned out to not really work, and now people are trying to figure out how to have friends again. It's the same with dating.
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I'm not sure continuous exposure to schadenfreude is any healthier than the more depressing topics, to be honest.
I mean I don’t actually revel in it, I was being a bit cheeky. I just wanted to reconnect with high school people during Covid so I friend requested a ton of people. It’s sad seeing a guy who was in the “gifted and talented program” with me is apparently now a janitor who posts pictures every day about what concert or sports game he’s at and he’s always alone. I was excited for him because he took a picture with a wo…
Haha, I don’t take pictures of myself alone, so I guess for anyone you notice like this, there are thousands invisible lonely boys.
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#199> [TikTok]'s addiction-based advertising machine is probably close to the theoretical maximum of how many advertisements one can pour down somebody’s throat. Well put. It's interesting that we pivoted in my adult lifetime from: 1. Myspace's emphasis on sharing things on your own webpage, essentially a hosted blog 2. Facebook's evolution from "hosted blog" to "friend update aggregator" to "chat client" to "friend upda…
Seems like Tiktok has far fewer ads than other social media platforms. Less than 10% of things are ads. Instagram is like 30+% ads for me.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look at monica crm https://github.com/monicahq/monica . I've yet to offer to start hosting it for people, but that could be a neat conversation piece for changing the tides there.
I think the GP’s point was that social relationships are increasingly becoming irrelevant to people. Having a personal relationship CRM seems cool, but this shift in society is happening not for lack of good social tools.
“I think the GP’s point was that social relationships are increasingly becoming irrelevant to people”
I have a hard time believing this is generally true.