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My naive thought is to NOT have these platforms, not to build an alternative.
by Brajeshwar 9mo ago
My naive thought is to NOT have these platforms, not to build an alternative.
- cush 9mo agoExactly, the idea that we can "fix" social media is a completely false premise and not a technology problem
- boxedemp 9mo agoThat may be true, but I'm still trying with one of my side projects. If for no other reason than it's a difficult problem and fun to hack at.
- cush 9mo agoI wonder if developers are so interested in recreating social media because they’re so familiar with it. To me, the “hard” part of what social media is, is the escape velocity (a pure business/serendipity problem) and the algorithm’s slow-feed of addictive content while keeping the users none the wiser. The site itself, db, interactions, etc only become hard completely unrealistic scale limits are met