ishanhegde

This is legitimately useful for new folks. Nice work

True. I was mistakenly confusing how the blogs/tweets ought to be Vs How they actually are

An anonymous social media could work if you moderate it extensively and/or restrict who can sign up in the first place. Not to mention, the need to monetize or support the site.

Creating a good Social Media site is a hard problem IMO.

For all the snark Hacker News gets, I think its not a bad attempt at creating a tech focused social media. Reddit and its many subreddits is something else that works to some extent.

There is a torrent of completely unrelated memes under every mainstream, popular tweet now. Completely unsubale.

At this point I am seriously considering subscribing to a local newspaper to get news.

I feel more and more disgusted by social media like twitter nowadays. Too much shilling, too much pushing of extereme unhinged ideas, not to mention the crypto bots, and now the only fans, porn bots. You have thousands of popular accounts exaggerating stupid gimmicks like being against seed oils for some reason. There is such an absurd amount of transparent grifting that twitter looks like some sort of fish market.

The moment, twitter added monetization, engagement farming got much worse. Was Social Media always destined to be like this?

Tweets are much more ephemeral than blogs. Longform writing indeed is a great avenue for working with ideas, and letting them take root.

But getting engagement from blogging is much harder. It takes much longer for blogs to get popular. Walled gardens like twitter are much more convinient for people to get into. More importantly, due to network effect, it is much harder to get engagement outside.