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My opinion is that a “social media platform” should stop trying to serve people from every demographic. I believe that: * Facebook was much better when it was
by 10000truths 4y ago
My opinion is that a “social media platform” should stop trying to serve people from every demographic. I believe that:
* Facebook was much better when it was an exclusive community of college students
* Reddit was much better when it was a small, self-manageable community of nerds
* Hacker News is much better than either of those two because it’s still a small community with a specific scope and good moderation
- tr1ll10nb1ll 4y agoI wasn't old enough for a small Reddit/college exclusive Facebook so I don't feel too strongly about it. However, I do agree that we don't have a true social platform (not a corp with other objectives). We can bemoan this all we want but if they weren't doing it, someone else would've been. Alternatives can be created over and over but as long as those are consumption-driven corporations, they will try extract every single second of our attention possible. That IS their business after-all.