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Your approach is actually used a lot. There are a lot of apps already out there which only allow you to communicate with reactions (e.g. Clash Royale). However,

Your approach is actually used a lot. There are a lot of apps already out there which only allow you to communicate with reactions (e.g. Clash Royale). However, these reactions seem very artificial and impersonal. There is no real community, and you never feel like people are truly being "nice" to you because they might only be doing it for the in-game reward. Social media as is is already too impersonal, just reactions would make it worse. I think what we really need is exclusivity and accountability. So you can't just be messaged by random people, and if people messaging you are being assholes they will at minimum be kicked off your network. I think this is similar to how "real" friend groups work, how they worked before social media. The main problem is it's hard to find new people.

TameAntelope 6y ago
Yep, I saw how communication in M:tG Arena worked, and I thought about how much less toxic that community is, possibly as a result. There's still ways to troll, but they're limited and hard to cause any real trouble with. My problem with accountability is that it doesn't seem to matter. Facebook users have shown us that even linking terrible content back to real people won't stop the real people from sharing those terrible content. Anonymity (or its inverse) isn't the answer. Has anyone tried putting up a paywall to use comments? I feel like surely someone has, but I can't think of an org off the top of my head.
TheRealNGenius 6y ago
Just curious, what would be your take on reactions combined with text comments? I think that it would kind of be like giving a face to an otherwise impersonal comment, kind of like emoji. Not really sure though, currently experimenting on this kind of idea: https://www.wndr.xyz https://www.wndr.xyz