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"Outside the house" is a straightforward better alternative to the inside of a burning house. > This is incredibly dismissive. I wish I could make it even mor
by jjoonathan 4y ago
"Outside the house" is a straightforward better alternative to the inside of a burning house.
> This is incredibly dismissive.
I wish I could make it even more so. Over and over, I have seen people throw away the best solution they had because they ruminated on its shortcomings without actually finding or building something better. Tearing is easy, building is hard. They toss away what they have, the situation fails to fix itself (why would it?) and instead gets even worse.
- Teever 4y agoIt's a social media website. There's no cost to the users to switch away, we saw that with the Digg migration. And Reddit has been top dog in this kind of social media for at least a decade, we aren't talking about jumping ship on out of whimsy, maybe it's time for Reddit to die? Like, honestly, who gives a shit about conde naste's social media site?
- jjoonathan 4y agoWhat was better than slashdot? HN. What was better than Digg? Reddit. What is better than Reddit? ------------------------ Believe me, I really wish you had an answer, but I don't think you do.
- transcriptase 4y agoHN would be if we could clone @dang 1000 times and make some sub-HNs.
- Teever 4y agoMy friends and I have been pretty satisfied with the federated matrix server that I've been running for several years now. I imagine that the future of social media will look something like that and mastodon. Small silos of people connected through an adhoc trust network seems to be a pretty good mitigation strategy for the issues of AI generated spam. we sure don't see any corporate spam in our rooms.