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Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks like Discord/Reddit?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks like Discord/Reddit?
#32Reddit has grown so much in the past few years. I frequently surprised at how much local content I can find on there now. Their mobile offering is now video heavy and will be competing with TikTok pretty soon.
But it has changed - Reddit used to be amazing. I agree with /u/JimtheCoder's comment: "95% of Reddit is a cesspool...never the subs you frequent, though... "
I hope the future of the internet is not reddit.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks like Discord/Reddit?
#33I stopped using Reddit a couple of years back because it was getting to be more of a cesspool than I was willing to put up with, so for me, anyway, it's not better than other social media.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks like Discord/Reddit?
#34Reddit and Discord are very different. Reddit is a holdover from the '00s phpBB /somethingawful /slashdot /digg messageboard era. Like messageboards, it was always public, which is how people discovered it, and went on to join specific communities. Discord is a instant messaging product that reflects modern social media priorities of walling everything off behind a user login; anathema to the public-facing nature of…
> If there's anything that prevents regular people from joining Discord, it's that you actually have to be told to join a specific discord, for something you're interested in.
This is why I've not used Discord. I don't know anyone or anything there.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks like Discord/Reddit?
#35I think the future is going to be fake social media websites that tailor make all the content to your preferences. Aka LLM generated content. You know how in Minecraft (and other games) how they have infinite maps? You just keep on exploring and the game generates new lands for you to explore? That is what the future of social networks will be.
> I think the future is going to be fake social media websites that tailor make all the content to your preferences. Aka LLM generated content.
What would be the point of that? I thought the purpose of social media was to interact with people.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks like Discord/Reddit?
#36Reddit and Discord are very different. Reddit is a holdover from the '00s phpBB /somethingawful /slashdot /digg messageboard era. Like messageboards, it was always public, which is how people discovered it, and went on to join specific communities. Discord is a instant messaging product that reflects modern social media priorities of walling everything off behind a user login; anathema to the public-facing nature of…
> If there's anything that prevents regular people from joining Discord, it's that you actually have to be told to join a specific discord, for something you're interested in. This is why I've not used Discord. I don't know anyone or anything there.
Honestly, any time I hear "join our Discord", for information that could easily be posted on the website, or on their Twitter, I think that Discord is the modern version of "subscribe to my newsletter", aka creating a captive audience that you can market a future product to.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks like Discord/Reddit?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just hoping that the robots dont hand wave away my arguments by making fun of them as "sophomoric".
> I'm just hoping that the robots dont hand wave away my arguments by making fun of them as "sophomoric". I didn't hand-wave it away, I just labeled it correctly and addressed it. A mind-blowing trump card of an "argument" it wasn't.
Dude, your argument against it was 1) that a technology that has been public for six months isn't perfect
2) that smart people would just know that comments were not being made by humans.
I truly don't understand how you are interpreting this conversation.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks like Discord/Reddit?
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If there's anything that prevents regular people from joining Discord, it's that you actually have to be told to join a specific discord, for something you're interested in. This is why I've not used Discord. I don't know anyone or anything there.
Honestly, any time I hear "join our Discord", for information that could easily be posted on the website, or on their Twitter, I think that Discord is the modern version of "subscribe to my newsletter", aka creating a captive audience that you can market a future product to.
Thanks for mentioning, hadn’t really pinpointed it but this has been my impression as well. “Like and subscribe”
Re: Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks like Discord/Reddit?
#39Smaller communities are great but you still need ways for people to find each other, or they just die. For example, if you write a blog, how does anyone find it who isn’t already subscribed? Reddit has subject-based discussions, good SEO, and subreddits are distinct enough to have a sense of place. One downside is that outsiders can just drop in and post, often without reading the rules, so you will often get a const…
I run a Discord with a bunch of open source developers. We use it to collaborate and get work done, similar to the way most developers use meatspace at their office. Then when we've made something that's worth sharing with a broader audience, we post it on places like Twitter and Hacker News. So it's not like social networks are political parties where you only choose one. Not all of us are anonymous. I'm a public figure and my activities are heavily monitored. It's nice to be able to talk to and collaborate with other people openly without having every breath and whisper permanently indexed to places like Google and hn.algolia.com.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks like Discord/Reddit?
#40> getting away from all the noise traditional social media has. Why do you presume the general population actually want to get away from "the noise", or that they even consider it noise? They're the ones making the stories and posts and aren't so happy that you called their feed "noise". I think the future of social media looks a lot like Instagram, because that's where social media is today, and it's crazy, I know,…
According to this, Instagram is the fourth most popular social media thing. Facebook and YouTube are the biggest (although I disagree that YouTube counts as "social media").
https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...