Re:How to run a small social network
by bee_rider on Sunday December 31, 2023 @01:10PM
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These sorts of sites should really be called Content Sharing sites or something.
I care about a social networking site because my social network is on it, not because some third party goes through effort to post content. I want content from sites like hackernews because it is interesting in and of itself. I want posts of my parents’ dog because I care about my parents.
These are two totally different use cases and I don’t see what we gain from conflating them.
This is why Facebook sucks (it combines the two), while Reddit was good for a long time (of course Reddit has gone downhill in implementation, but the concept is solid).
I care about a social networking site because my social network is on it, not because some third party goes through effort to post content. I want content from sites like hackernews because it is interesting in and of itself. I want posts of my parents’ dog because I care about my parents.
These are two totally different use cases and I don’t see what we gain from conflating them.
This is why Facebook sucks (it combines the two), while Reddit was good for a long time (of course Reddit has gone downhill in implementation, but the concept is solid).