[theossuary]

I think this is the reason social media like Discord has taken off. The new generation has started to realize that any large scale community on the internet is invested with bots. So instead they've decided to create their own small communities where there's still an assumption of good faith between users.

I wonder what the next generation of social media will look like if it starts to take that into account in its earliest stages of design?

[the_af]

Maybe, but I find Discord unusable so it's not a solution for me. Also, I dislike apps and walled gardens for communities. And dislike chat apps too (except for a small group of friends or for work).

[0_____0]

It amazes me that we had a decentralized, independently run series of chat networks in IRC. It wasn't even weird or hackerey, just how you talked to people on the internet sometimes. Mostly I talked to people about degen shit and doing drugs, not, like, kernel maintenance.

Now Slack/Discord are standard ish but whenever there's an outage I remember IRC netsplits and how if a server went down you'd still be able to talk to half of everyone until the network healed.

[j45]

That’s an interesting thought.

The focussed communities that irc and forums enabled definitely have it.

Discord has bots too though.

Just like something existed before social media, as the users of the internet grow through social media, they will leave it behind for next.

[ryandrake]

> I think this is the reason social media like Discord has taken off.

I don't get this. "Social media run by a corporation's centralized platform is terrible! Let's join another corporation's centralized platform!"

[salmonfamine]

Dark Forest theory of the internet in practice.

[alex_suzuki]

Mandatory explanatory link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis

And reminder to everybody that „The Three-Body Problem“ is coming to Netflix in March.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

It's too dang easy to make accounts to spam and pollute communities. My future would have less anonymity and more user verification.

[decremental]

A lot of very bad people want that same future for you. Maybe you'll get your wish.

[0_____0]

I hope things get better for you.