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I'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.
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…
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.
This is partially why I don't really care about the downfall of any of these platforms, they were always replaceable and never all that beneficial. Rather than tightly weave my identity to a platform, I'll just do what I've been doing which is browsing different platforms and posting what I want to them. More should adopt this viewpoint, so the next time a platform collapses on itself as they usually do they don't feel so... lost.
I'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.
What's that, nobody's posting? Well... post something.
Yes, spam, but it turns out to be trivial to filter.
I still enjoy twitter, I find its death greatly exaggerated.
I could say the same about reddit except for the "enjoy" part. I imagine that in a while people will give up on finding alternatives and go back to reddit. Unless reddit keeps doing more stupid stuff it's not going away anytime soon.
The best case trajectory for Reddit is Facebook's: a highly populated corporate cesspool of low quality leftovers.
But that really is the best case, as Reddit doesn't have the "my family and my boss are on Facebook, so I have to be there" effect that Facebook has. It really does rely on some threshold of quality posts.
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…
It sort of makes sense, if a local government, or a university wants to build a physical commons, they hire out to companies to design, build, etc. the space, but then ownership transfers over to the organizer of interest such as the government who then manage it in perpetuity.