| Though it seemed for a period that Reddit/Facebook ended the constant migration, the cool kids are once more on the lookout for a new coffee house as it has become clear the current platforms have many intolerable shortfallings. Yeah, I guess there were people stupid enough to think Myspace was forever too, but that's not your entire demographic! I bet all the cool kids can't wait to switch over to the newest social media platform. Oh wait, all the cool kids are still on IRC, email, and personal websites. The pre-alpha version is to be released sometime this month when we can all see how this works in practice, but from Alisie’s description, the platform is a mixed combination of Medium, Twitter, Reddit and Facebook all in one. Medium, Twitter, Reddit, and Facebok all in one?! Sounds legit. Combined with the quadratic voting mechanism we mentioned earlier, the entire project becomes very interesting. Yeah, I always felt like using the same voting system as bees would improve my social media experience. Super interesting. The people who use Reddit, Facebook, and Hacker News(!) aren't desperately looking for an escape. They don't care. They have and have had plenty of places to switch to. They only care enough to get angry and then do nothing. That's what social media is. Getting mad about things and then doing nothing. If you actually care, do something besides up vote an angry post. |