[wuj]

I was surprised the article didn't mention Reddit.

The issue with platforms lies in how quality contents are rewarded. Social media algorithms can be "hacked" to distribute unhelpful contents. The democratic voting system used by Reddit and HN solved this problem by quantifying helpfulness. The great thing is this mechanism incentivizes publishers to improve their contents, which is exactly what they are doing with their home pages, as mentioned in this article.

[OuterVale]

You say it solved that issue, and, on the by and large, I'm inclined to agree with you. That said, it also had the effect of promoting an echo chamber that punishes anything truly outside the norm which causes damage of another type.

[hkon]

Indeed. The same way that video shorts are forcing every creator to use the same way of speaking, tonality, cadence. Reddit etc. are forcing you to write and think a certain way to generate upvotes.

[purple-leafy]

Reddit upvotes karma system is incredibly, incredibly easily gamed and it’s happening on a mass scale. Most content is pure utter rubbish.

Most content is crust level depth at best. Absolutely nothing deeper makes it to the front page.

Why? Because modern humans have no attention span, and it’s like a herd of sheep.

In fact, the best “social” media for me would be a site like reddit/hacker news where it can’t be gamed at all.

I just want to see my interests and hobbies and articles on them. Maybe some barrier that prevents the masses from getting in. An IQ test? A programming puzzle that you must solve in a short time frame?

Give me a walled garden utopia

I’ve deleted everything. All I have now is HackerNews.