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Comment by pj_mukh | Hacker News Reader

Here's the uncomfortable question though, can a social media platform achieve sufficient scale, so its more useful for discoverability than your group chats, without optimizing for engagement?

Discord is a happy medium (just, really large group chats).

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Yep, I never understood having Twitter. I read linked posts but the "Community" peoploe talk about is lost to me because I used to use old forums and now Discord.

TikTok, for all its woes, seems to somehow do this significantly better than Twitter and Facebook? Or is that just my filter bubble?

TikTok's algorithm sounds to just be generally less transparent than Twitter's. I wonder if they've gone out of their way to just reduce the reach of political content on there in general. Or, if Twitter just acts as the grease trap for this kind of content.

Not just you. TikTok's signature feature is its excellent recommendations.

Is there a conversation to be had? I guess stitched videos?

Discord is actually a good example: I think I got 0 notifications about groups I don't follow, so isn't as big of an incentive to aggressively smugpost as in Twitter.

Join any server remotely related to crypto or finance, the spam messages will start rolling in.

I get on average about 1 a day, something about "pumps" (whatever that is)

But with discord you choose what servers you join AND if you even get notifications or DMs from users...

Why would join a discord dedicated to either? That seems like a own goal to me. If you dont want to get sketchy messages, then dont go to sketchy places.

I don't join those servers, though, so I don't get notifications about their @channel messages. Twitter, however, is essentially doing exactly that to it's users. I hate being subjected to shit I don't want to see, so I don't keep Twitter installed on my phone, despite the fact that I an active in a couple of small, niche communities that can only exist at scale thanks to social media (and specifically Twitter). It's frustrating. Discord is (currently) the worst but best solution to this problem.

Somewhere in options you can choose not to receive messages from strangers.

FWIW, I've found most of my discord servers on...Twitter. Discoverability is still a problem. How does everyone else do it?

The Fediverse is pretty much that. It gets "scale" via interoperability, but each individual server is quite small and manageable.

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