Comment by noman-land
Comment by noman-land 10 hours ago
Group chats are lowercase S social media but they still benefit from being open.
Comment by noman-land 10 hours ago
Group chats are lowercase S social media but they still benefit from being open.
> By open do you mean not centralised? I don't get the significance of big S social media. Functionally how would big S improve on group chats?
Social media has two functions: chat (within groups/topics/...) and discovery (of groups/topics/...). So unless we rely only on IRL discovery, we need a way to do discovery online.
Discovery is probably the main problem social media creates. Almost all of these problems solve themselves when you remove discovery. If someone in your friends group chat is spamming porn you just remove them. There's no need for the platform to intervene here, small groups of people can moderate their own friend groups.
Once you start algorithmically shoving content to people you have to start worrying about spam, trolling, politics, copyright, and all kinds of issues. The best discovery system is friends sharing chat invite links to other friends who are interested.
By open do you mean not centralised? I don't get the significance of big S social media. Functionally how would big S improve on group chats?