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Computer networking in general and social apps in particular are still young, in civilization's history. We are still figuring this out. Maybe in a hundred year
by combatentropy 7y ago
Computer networking in general and social apps in particular are still young, in civilization's history. We are still figuring this out. Maybe in a hundred years we will have a good grasp of what works. If the writer is right, then Google Plus's lack of traction was from the interaction among several subtle ingredients.
- skybrian 7y agoYes, even Facebook's "successful" model is kind of a failure because it encourages people to spam all their friends and relatives with crappy memes. It seems like a better model should somehow encourage people to think about their audience and post what they would appreciate.
- zrobotics 7y agoSo similar to IRC. As much as I hate their desktop client, Discord is actually ticking all the right boxes for what I want out of social media. Ironically one of these things: broadcasting specific things to specific groups, is something G+ tried to do. If I see an interesting paper, I don't want to share that on FB and have my grandmother making confused comments. But I do have a discord channel w/ some college friends where something like that is appreciated. At the same time, most of them aren't gamers, so gaming content is on a different channel. I don't even regularly use discord for their VOIP chat (arguably the reason they caught on), but unfortunately it is just easier to use for non-technical people than IRC.
- slouch 7y agoI like this. I'm a Discord user with no real life friends on the service interacting with me, but I'd love to be able to suggest channels that don't exist on the WordPress server I use.