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> while I liked it better than Twitter, for me it was disappointing that it was just Twitter, but different I feel exactly the same way. I think there needs t
by derbOac 1y ago
> while I liked it better than Twitter, for me it was disappointing that it was just Twitter, but different
I feel exactly the same way.
I think there needs to be a kind of paradigm shift into something different, probably something that people in general don't have a good schema for right now.
Probably something decentralized or federated is necessary in my opinion, something in between email and twitter or reddit? But there's always these chicken and egg issues with adoption, who are early adopters, how that affects adoption, genuine UX-type issues etc.
- 9rx 1y ago> Probably something decentralized or federated is necessary in my opinion, something in between email and twitter or reddit? So, Usenet? The medium is the message and all that, sure, but unless you change where the message originates you are ultimately going to still end up in the same place.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoSounds like a return to old school, long term forums. They still exist, but there's a reason Reddit and Twitter took over the "forum space". They toom the core ideas and injected it with "engagement". In this case, with the voting system of reddit, and the follower system of Twitter. Gamefying the act of interacting with peope had effects beyond anyone's comprehension in 2007