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I've been having the same feeling about discord - this is the future for social media, or at least the social media I want:

- Smaller streams, fewer people, more personal.

- No great feed of everything. You go to a place to read about a thing. Different thing, different place.

If discord had a bit more work that would enable persistent threads like reddit, and encouraged longer, more thoughtful posts like HN and quality moderation, it would be perfect.

Actually, what I want is HN/Discord mashup. Anybody want to fund it?

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basically: humans can totally interact in 10 x O(50) communities despite being utterly unable to interact in 1 x O(500) community. That's really the same lesson as scrum teams too, just at a different scale.

human empathy and working set is totally limited by team size and cache level, you need to optimize for facing the same problems/interests as the person next to you.

Families/localities/regions are the cache layers of empathy. And I'm using "family" broadly.

"Contextual communities" I guess.

>If discord had a bit more work that would enable persistent threads like reddit, and encouraged longer, more thoughtful posts like HN and quality moderation, it would be perfect.

Facebook Groups is this product - but it's exceedingly difficult to find the small percentage of well-moderated, smaller groups which are specialized/for enthusiasts. Also, the FB sub-comment/response structure is far worse than HN or Reddit and leaves much to be desired. But I've joined a few with good moderation and thoughtful, interesting discussions.

That being said, any group with [thousands] of members or loose moderation devolves into an absolute shitshow of shit posting and scam/spam posters.

Is that not Reddit?

Reddit suffers from intruders trying to influence. With Discord, you won't find my group of friends to intrude upon, because we won't invite you.

I thought about it more, and you are correct that Reddit enables private subreddits. My circle of friends on the Internet have one - but we've stopped using it. For me, a problem was that Reddit itself became polluted by influencers, so I avoid it (the whole site) as much as possible now. Since Discord hasn't had that problem, it was an easy, pleasant move to make.

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