The article is supposed to be about the "downfall of social networks" but somehow manages to ignore the fact that Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok are all still thriving with no end in sight. It's basically trying to say that because Reddit is struggling with profitability and Twitter is struggling with being bought by a petty jackass, social networks are in precipitous decline? But I barely think of Reddit or Twitter as social networks. I use the former as a resource for niche topics and I avoid the latter at all costs because it's full of bots and repetitive political crybabies. Yet me and everyone I know engages with some combo of FB/Insta/TikTok several times every day, just like we have for years and years.
So where are we all supposed to go now?
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#32The decline of social network monopolies will also see a decline in mass political influence in the form of international content farms pumping out propaganda, and grassroots organisations trying to save us from burning down the planet. It feels like the balance of political discourse and its capacity for abuse wobbles and wavers over time, but ultimately they cancel each other out.
I'm looking forward to a world beyond parallel societies operating on the internet for the profit of one or two companies.
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#33I've been enjoying Metafilter again after many years, and also Tildes. There are well established forums for my interests that were always bigger than they were on reddit. I have some Tildes invites if anyone wants them.
> I have some Tildes invites if anyone wants them.
I'd love a Tildes invite if you still have one to share. My email is on my HN profile.
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#34I've been enjoying tildes.net a lot, especially after the Reddit debacle. It's more like HN in that there are much fewer jokes and pun threads than reddit.
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#35I still enjoy twitter, I find its death greatly exaggerated.
Every time I bother to check out twitter, or mindlessly follow a link there, it's just more of the same toddler-level political trolling. It's like an endless loop of bitching and whining and attacking, just with slightly different topics day to day.
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#36I still enjoy twitter, I find its death greatly exaggerated.
For those replying to you about Twitter is still politics, that's like going to r/all on reddit and complaining that it's all tired memes. When you look for lowest denominator content, that's what you'll get.
The answer lies in curation. Just as one can read only high quality subs like AskHistorians or AskScience on reddit, so too must you curate your Twitter feed with what type of content you're looking for. For example I have lists for ancient art, web development, general programming, and so on. I also block the Trending pages so I almost never see any political stuff on Twitter.
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#37Nerds screaming for decades: The lock-in effect of the big companies will bite you in the ass.
Normies: But it's so easy and i can't be bothered to understand what i am doing anyway. Go away
...The inevitable happens...
Normies: Where are we all supposed to go now?
Rinse and Repeat.
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#38Outside. There's even a nice blue ceiling (or, for British users, a nice grey ceiling)
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#39The article is supposed to be about the "downfall of social networks" but somehow manages to ignore the fact that Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok are all still thriving with no end in sight. It's basically trying to say that because Reddit is struggling with profitability and Twitter is struggling with being bought by a petty jackass, social networks are in precipitous decline? But I barely think of Reddit or Twitter…
Facebook instagram and tiktok, as you say, do not have the same searchable level of useful information in super niche subjects, which turns out to be the crucial difference afaic, the rest is noise.
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#40Having been a vigorous Discord user for years: Discord sucks. Its so time inefficient (yet engaging) that I had to delete the apps from my phone and desktop for my own sake. And don't even get me started on the difficulty of actually finding niche information.
The Discord UX alone keeps me off it. Slack has the superior interface but with the Salesforce acquisition, I doubt it'll last for long. They've already snuffed out several communities' utility with their pricing plans.
Actually I think the UI is pretty good compared to, say, modern Reddit.
The usage patterns are the problem.