Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks like Discord/Reddit?

Re:Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks lik... by rchaud on Thursday May 18, 2023 @03:02PM (#35992562)

Reddit and Discord are very different. Reddit is a holdover from the '00s phpBB /somethingawful /slashdot /digg messageboard era. Like messageboards, it was always public, which is how people discovered it, and went on to join specific communities.

Discord is a instant messaging product that reflects modern social media priorities of walling everything off behind a user login; anathema to the public-facing nature of Reddit and Digg. If there's anything that prevents regular people from joining Discord, it's that you actually have to be told to join a specific discord, for something you're interested in. You can't click a link from someplace and see something interesting happening there.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks lik... by JohnFen on Thursday May 18, 2023 @04:54PM (#35993917)

> If there's anything that prevents regular people from joining Discord, it's that you actually have to be told to join a specific discord, for something you're interested in.

This is why I've not used Discord. I don't know anyone or anything there.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks lik... by rchaud on Thursday May 18, 2023 @05:06PM (#35994050)

Honestly, any time I hear "join our Discord", for information that could easily be posted on the website, or on their Twitter, I think that Discord is the modern version of "subscribe to my newsletter", aka creating a captive audience that you can market a future product to.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks lik... by veggieburrito on Thursday May 18, 2023 @05:35PM (#35994396)

Thanks for mentioning, hadn’t really pinpointed it but this has been my impression as well. “Like and subscribe”

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