The whole "broadcast yourself to the world" part of social networks just moved to Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram etc.. I think.
Twitter is anonymous, but 100% public. There is no way to limit your audience to a smaller group.
FB is not anonymous and mostly public. Private groups do exist, but you still mostly need to have an actual name on your account.
TikTok & Snapchat are mostly for people who show their faces, not anonymous.
WhatsApp shows everyone everyone's phone numbers if they are in the same group, not anonymous. You can also be forcibly added to a group of hundreds of people you don't know without permission.
Telegram and Discord are more like old-school IRC was. Just a nickname and that's it, no personal info needed. (IRC did have the hostname, but some networks masked it)
As for Discord, I've got a few accounts and have been asked for telephone numbers 0 times. It's only needed when a specific server demands it, haven't seen any yet.
LinkedIn is what the adult version of a social media would be, because most people are happy to share some aspect of their professional life to the public, and professional life is usually fake and a mirage.
This isn't true anymore. You can choose your audience now and there's even more features like that in test.
Interestingly, I mostly see this sort of limiting or disabling of discussion when the information in a tweet is clearly false.
see
[1] https://spkz.io/
[3] https://gm.xyz/
*disclosure i'm a co-founder of #2
I used to be real hardcore into bitcoin, around the $1-10 range. You people need to give it up already and quit annoying the rest of us by trying to force fit an insanely inefficient technology into every aspect of life.
“Preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
I look back at my Instagram and my last post was 2 years ago. All of the people that I used to see pop up, the people that would like my photos, and I would like their’s, those people seem to be gone. Friends from college, and high school have all been replaced by short videos of strangers, ads, and influencers.
I think the biggest missing piece for me is keeping up with people I know, but wouldn’t otherwise talk to (by any means listed above). It was nice to see those people pop up sometimes, but I have no way of serendipitously finding them anymore. That’s what social media was to me.