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I've been having the same feeling about discord - this is the future for social media, or at least the social media I want: - Smaller streams, fewer people, mo

I've been having the same feeling about discord - this is the future for social media, or at least the social media I want: - Smaller streams, fewer people, more personal. - No great feed of everything. You go to a place to read about a thing. Different thing, different place. If discord had a bit more work that would enable persistent threads like reddit, and encouraged longer, more thoughtful posts like HN and quality moderation, it would be perfect. Actually, what I want is HN/Discord mashup. Anybody want to fund it?

whiskey14 4y ago
Is that not Reddit?
- degrees57 4y ago
  Reddit suffers from intruders trying to influence. With Discord, you won't find my group of friends to intrude upon, because we won't invite you.
- degrees57 4y ago
  I thought about it more, and you are correct that Reddit enables private subreddits. My circle of friends on the Internet have one - but we've stopped using it. For me, a problem was that Reddit itself became polluted by influencers, so I avoid it (the whole site) as much as possible now. Since Discord hasn't had that problem, it was an easy, pleasant move to make.
oarabbus_ 4y ago
>If discord had a bit more work that would enable persistent threads like reddit, and encouraged longer, more thoughtful posts like HN and quality moderation, it would be perfect. Facebook Groups is this product - but it's exceedingly difficult to find the small percentage of well-moderated, smaller groups which are specialized/for enthusiasts. Also, the FB sub-comment/response structure is far worse than HN or Reddit and leaves much to be desired. But I've joined a few with good moderation and thoughtful, interesting discussions. That being said, any group with [thousands] of members or loose moderation devolves into an absolute shitshow of shit posting and scam/spam posters.
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paulmd 4y ago
basically: humans can totally interact in 10 x O(50) communities despite being utterly unable to interact in 1 x O(500) community. That's really the same lesson as scrum teams too, just at a different scale. human empathy and working set is totally limited by team size and cache level, you need to optimize for facing the same problems/interests as the person next to you. Families/localities/regions are the cache layers of empathy. And I'm using "family" broadly. "Contextual communities" I guess.

whiskey14 4y ago

Is that not Reddit?

degrees57 4y ago
Reddit suffers from intruders trying to influence. With Discord, you won't find my group of friends to intrude upon, because we won't invite you.
degrees57 4y ago
I thought about it more, and you are correct that Reddit enables private subreddits. My circle of friends on the Internet have one - but we've stopped using it. For me, a problem was that Reddit itself became polluted by influencers, so I avoid it (the whole site) as much as possible now. Since Discord hasn't had that problem, it was an easy, pleasant move to make.

oarabbus_ 4y ago

>If discord had a bit more work that would enable persistent threads like reddit, and encouraged longer, more thoughtful posts like HN and quality moderation, it would be perfect. Facebook Groups is this product - but it's exceedingly difficult to find the small percentage of well-moderated, smaller groups which are specialized/for enthusiasts. Also, the FB sub-comment/response structure is far worse than HN or Reddit and leaves much to be desired. But I've joined a few with good moderation and thoughtful, interesting discussions. That being said, any group with [thousands] of members or loose moderation devolves into an absolute shitshow of shit posting and scam/spam posters.

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paulmd 4y ago

basically: humans can totally interact in 10 x O(50) communities despite being utterly unable to interact in 1 x O(500) community. That's really the same lesson as scrum teams too, just at a different scale. human empathy and working set is totally limited by team size and cache level, you need to optimize for facing the same problems/interests as the person next to you. Families/localities/regions are the cache layers of empathy. And I'm using "family" broadly. "Contextual communities" I guess.