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Future of social media in 5/10 years from now? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I would be interested in people's opinion on the future of social media. Would activitypub ever become mainstream among "normies" that lack technical literacy?

How would monetisation work on a decentralized platform? Would the creator be limited with merchandise and promotions without ads?

Big tech walled gardens have made the internet worse. The only way you can find something on google is by appending the term "reddit" at the end of the search query. To many AI generated SEO clickbait wordpress pages.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The kind of people who obtain information and discourse from reddit would never wish to obtain it from discord. They're not even remotely similar in approach.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I still use both and they don't come close to serving the same purpose

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen at least one sub (r/conlangs) partially migrating to Discord. They might not like it, and I do agree that the approach is not even remotely similar, but Discord is still able to somewhat fill - poorly - the same role as Reddit, so with Reddit going kaboom Discord will partially absorb redditfugees.

Discord is also in a position to absorb some twitterfugees.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If discord adds more persistent web space that's searchable by web crawler, I could Discord see become this replacement. Right now it's too gated behind individual communities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fully agree.

I hope that it doesn't though. We don't need yet another centralised platform that can and will go rogue, and is already showing signs that it wants to go rogue.