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Here's the uncomfortable question though, can a social media platform achieve sufficient scale, so its more useful for discoverability than your group chats, wi
by pj_mukh 4y ago
Here's the uncomfortable question though, can a social media platform achieve sufficient scale, so its more useful for discoverability than your group chats, without optimizing for engagement?
Discord is a happy medium (just, really large group chats).
- semi-extrinsic 4y agoTikTok, for all its woes, seems to somehow do this significantly better than Twitter and Facebook? Or is that just my filter bubble?
- bee_rider 4y agoTikTok's algorithm sounds to just be generally less transparent than Twitter's. I wonder if they've gone out of their way to just reduce the reach of political content on there in general. Or, if Twitter just acts as the grease trap for this kind of content.
- duskwuff 4y agoNot just you. TikTok's signature feature is its excellent recommendations.
- pj_mukh 4y agoIs there a conversation to be had? I guess stitched videos?
- mFixman 4y agoDiscord is actually a good example: I think I got 0 notifications about groups I don't follow, so isn't as big of an incentive to aggressively smugpost as in Twitter.
- mox1 4y agoJoin any server remotely related to crypto or finance, the spam messages will start rolling in. I get on average about 1 a day, something about "pumps" (whatever that is)
- rejectfinite 4y agoBut with discord you choose what servers you join AND if you even get notifications or DMs from users...
- thereddaikon 4y agoWhy would join a discord dedicated to either? That seems like a own goal to me. If you dont want to get sketchy messages, then dont go to sketchy places.
- scruple 4y agoI don't join those servers, though, so I don't get notifications about their @channel messages. Twitter, however, is essentially doing exactly that to it's users. I hate being subjected to shit I don't want to see, so I don't keep Twitter installed on my phone, despite the fact that I an active in a couple of small, niche communities that can only exist at scale thanks to social media (and specifically Twitter). It's frustrating. Discord is (currently) the worst but best solution to this problem.
- fazfq 4y agoSomewhere in options you can choose not to receive messages from strangers.
- pj_mukh 4y agoFWIW, I've found most of my discord servers on...Twitter. Discoverability is still a problem. How does everyone else do it?
- zozbot234 4y agoThe Fediverse is pretty much that. It gets "scale" via interoperability, but each individual server is quite small and manageable.
- rejectfinite 4y agoYep, I never understood having Twitter. I read linked posts but the "Community" peoploe talk about is lost to me because I used to use old forums and now Discord.