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Basically, manged social networks like Reddit are all terrible. You get unsocialable people who eventually join, and then that begets moderation, which begets m

Basically, manged social networks like Reddit are all terrible. You get unsocialable people who eventually join, and then that begets moderation, which begets misbehavior, which begets more extreme moderation. Ad infinitum. What my experience is is that everyone who has seen this on reddit (or facebook or twitter) is doing is just making their own curated network on Discord or something. Slack, even, since the free version is pretty okay. I suppose that just moves the problem to the hosts of the channel but honestly it cannot be worse than reddit since there wouldn't be any corporate influence, which this post seems to strongly suggest is happening at scale on reddit. You see this a lot already, with youtube personalities and devs even saying "join my Discord!" in their videos and on their blogs. Frankly, this is a good step forward ... but my comment about corporate influence is a little tongue-in-cheek, since eventually those companies (Slack, Discord, etc.) will face pressure (from their owners and investors, from powerful outsiders) to police the content that exists within their platform. I have no idea how to solve this problem. I don't like the idea of any network being vulnerable to the whims of some corporate overlord, so if anyone can figure out how to do a distributed social networking protocol that would be very nice and I'd sign up immediately.

BLKNSLVR 6y ago
> Basically, manged social networks like Reddit are all terrible Manged is the word I use when I'm referring to management that's been done badly. I'm sure yours is a typo, but if not, it's a word that should catch on. Use in a sentence: My Manger just asked me to do two tasks, which they don't even realise are mutually exclusive. The Mangement is taking this company down the tubes. That project was manged into the dismal failure you read about in yesterday's paper.
- benibela 6y ago
  Or pronounce the word in a more German way Ma na ger Manaːɡɐ Where Nager translates to rodent.
koheripbal 6y ago
I think that smaller communities make for better content, and more mature discussions. The front page needs to be removed, and karma needs to be isolated between subs.
enumjorge 6y ago
There’s already decentralized social networking. Mastodon comes to mind.
- throwawaysea 6y ago
  In my opinion Mastodon lost its only value proposition (to be censorship free) when people started hunting for ways to block Gab, with ruthless social media harassment against admins who refused to block instances. They also adopted a 'server covenant' (https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/05/introducing-the-mastodon-server-covenant/ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/05/introducing-the-mastod...) that automatically takes political stances that are incompatible with open discourse.
  - free_rms 6y ago
    That's pretty brutal. Why do they have so little faith in their own concept? Independence but only on our terms?

BLKNSLVR 6y ago

> Basically, manged social networks like Reddit are all terrible Manged is the word I use when I'm referring to management that's been done badly. I'm sure yours is a typo, but if not, it's a word that should catch on. Use in a sentence: My Manger just asked me to do two tasks, which they don't even realise are mutually exclusive. The Mangement is taking this company down the tubes. That project was manged into the dismal failure you read about in yesterday's paper.

benibela 6y ago
Or pronounce the word in a more German way Ma na ger Manaːɡɐ Where Nager translates to rodent.

koheripbal 6y ago

I think that smaller communities make for better content, and more mature discussions. The front page needs to be removed, and karma needs to be isolated between subs.

enumjorge 6y ago

There’s already decentralized social networking. Mastodon comes to mind.

throwawaysea 6y ago
In my opinion Mastodon lost its only value proposition (to be censorship free) when people started hunting for ways to block Gab, with ruthless social media harassment against admins who refused to block instances. They also adopted a 'server covenant' (https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/05/introducing-the-mastodon-server-covenant/ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/05/introducing-the-mastod...) that automatically takes political stances that are incompatible with open discourse.
- free_rms 6y ago
  That's pretty brutal. Why do they have so little faith in their own concept? Independence but only on our terms?