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> link aggregation One thing I've noticed over the years is that most social media companies have slowly started to discourage outbound links. On reddit a su
by time_to_smile 4y ago
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One thing I've noticed over the years is that most social media companies have slowly started to discourage outbound links.
On reddit a surprising number of subs no longer allow you to just submit links, and a growing number require review before posting external content.
Even Twitter (before Musk) was clearly deprioritizing external links.
This is a bit troubling because it further leads to the "dead internet" where it gets harder and harder for people making interesting content independent of major sites to get visibility.
I think of the main reasons HN remains relatively high quality is its primary function is still aggregating pointers to elsewhere.
- axus 4y agoI'd thought Reddit subs prohibited links because it attracts spam and marketing disguised as organic recommendations. For Twitter, they promote organic content "for free" but want to make the inorganic stuff pay money for promotion. Discord is close the original poster's idea for a social network, replace "social circle" with "Discord server" and lower the member limit for a server. Back to your topic, a semi-private Discord server/social circle moderator can ban anyone posting spam links so its not a huge problem there.