Combating Loneliness in the Digital Age: Can New Social Platforms Help?

Re:Combating Loneliness in the Digital Age: Can New Social P... by thepablohansen on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @07:25PM (#38538889)

I've thought a bit about this issue and technology's potential role in fixing it. A generalized app that promises community isn't going to reach mass adoption outside of an extremely viral built-in mechanism. Mostly because the required user density is inevitably so high (also why most new dating apps fail). If you (or any other entrepreneur) is focused on tackling this issue, I'd do it incrementally, by fixing a clear problem in one very specific segment of your potential audience's life, and expanding from there.

Look at an website like https://www.lu.ma which is in some sense accomplishing a similar mission.

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Re:Combating Loneliness in the Digital Age: Can New Social P... by YT-Main on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @07:58PM (#38539173)

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I too was facing the same problem, as with a community-related app the key thing is getting to a critical mass to where it becomes useful.

Interesting, you said about a specific problem, can you expand on what you mean by that?

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