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Discord yes, small communities with barriers to entry, posts broadcast only to that community not the entire planet.

Reddit, no. Reddit is 15+ years old now. It is what it is, a news aggregator site with volunteer mods to police content. I don't see how they grow either revenues or users which is why they are trying to ipo and cash out.

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Think of walled off 'private communities' with HOAs. My take is people want the internet that self selected for only the certain social groups/classes of people that could afford the internet in the early 2000s without having to say that is what they want. Mainly college students and post-college professionals with enough disposable income to afford the limited practical use the internet offered back then. Maybe make a startup that only offers services to those in the RIGHT Discord channels, with the right social credit. Maybe job offers first go to those in your channels, so your same social circle that has already self selected out the 'wrong' types. It seems super gross to me but the other alternative complete sucks too. I just think this new direction is as classist and racist as private home communities with restrictive HOAs and the people hear need to be honest that that is what they want.

This is kind of already the case. There are stock/forex trading discords where "verified" trader roles already exist (e.g. you have an account with that prop firm), and helpful information (including job openings) are sent there first.

Same thing with various Discord communities that recruit from Reddit where your participation in the subreddit is used to determine if you're trustworthy.

If you don't know how to get access to those Discords, you wouldn't know that they exist.

> My take is people want the internet that self selected for only the certain social groups/classes of people [who loved computers enough to early adopt] the internet in the [20th century] without having to say that is what they want.

This is what I want. There. I said it. Go lay down with the lambs on Reddit and Facebook to cry more about it.

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