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It might be a good thing that Australia actually has a competitor in the field which is otherwise dominated by US tech giants. Though one has to ask why Murdoch gave up Sky and 20th Century.

In many cultures and especially if you live in a big city, the idea of being able to get around without a car is considered positive. Vegetarianism is massive in India (as are railways) and significant percentages in Europe too.

The rest is the problem with how we generate our energy.

Google Circles was a good concept but I presume poorly implemented. Facebook fails outside the school/university environment because most people do not want their private social lives to be public, and the start of Facebook was limited to young people.

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.

Vine was forced to intergrade into Twitter.

HN is probably the closest to what the old pre-reddit forum culture was like, but obviously structured in the horrible reddit manner. Reddit is probably an unsocial media.

It's better than what Instagram does, and way better than what Twitter does, but it may also be a sign of the biases and politics engineered into algorithms in Instagram and Twitter.

Reddit has destroyed the forum culture that basically owned this concept. The internet was a far less politized place before Reddit came along, and you could have a conversation on a forum between wildly different political opponents without knowing they were political opponents.

LinkenIn is probably a long term social network because a lot of people want to be able to maintain a "professional side" to them in public, but want to be able to keep the personal lives private. Facebook was aimed at college students so was able to be somewhere in the middle.

Facebook fails with the segregation of social groups most humans have. In some countries a person does not make true friends at work, and friends are a personal casual thing. For some cultures a friend can be made in a few days, in other cultures it takes several months or years

Reddit is horrific because the moderation on the website is so heavily biased towards the current mantra of the US Democrats, regardless of topic and country involved. Why so many of the public ditched forums, where replying to an older comment can continue a conversation for new people to see, with Reddit is a mystery to me as well. Reddit has become a slur in the Indian diaspora for example.

Twitter is still the only major social media network where alternative views may be tolerated, and hence Musk was trying to buy it. Reddit is probably a better fit for your complaint.

I would say that the golden years ended by 2012 (depending on age of course).

Facebook was essentially a way to connect to people outside your inner circle, and before 2012 it was a way for younger people to connect to other younger people outside school/college/university. It was similar to what Instagram does now except for the new friends feature.

Facebook works in a social environment where everyone knows your personal details and you maintain a casual-formal image (school, university...) but is useless in most other contexts. Instagram provides flexibility in who you can add, but is bad as a tool for socializing.

Youtube is also a website first, whereas TikTok is an app first. Apps on mobile are usually harder to leave.

Reddit is the worst of all the social media considering how toxic the moderation is. You just leave the site full of anger and a desire to shout at all the misinformed on that site.

TikTok is similar to TV. People would sit around the TV for hours per day, TikTok is usually in the magnitude of minutes. The algortyhm also does not feel politically or culturally motivated, unlike Reddit.

Reddit is already a cesspool for many issues including politics, news and race/culture based questions.

Which is why the "America might be a different case" was added. I suspect that the casteism was allowed to flourish among some Indian Americans, whereas in India the casteism was actively dismantled (and to how the IT industry is primarily in areas where casteism is less). Indian diaspora in the rest of the West were more middle class and probably did not care for caste at all in the first place.

Yes and no.

Casteism is virtually a non-existent concept among the Indian diaspora in the West, who are mostly in the second generation or further, though the US is possibly an exception. If you asked an Indian person in Australia about casteism then they would look at you as if you were asking something about India history and implied they weren't Australian.

Furthermore casteism in the Indian American circles or even the Indian American IT industry may actually be worse than the casteism in India, because caste is a rare discussion point in the Indian tech world, and casteism is a less poignant issue in South India where most of the tech industry is based.

Part of it is to do with emigration from India to the US (where money talks) during the communist Cold War era when there was discrimination against upper castes in India (and note that an upper caste person may not have much money). In the UK and other English speaking countries, immigration was varied and across a much longer time period with predominantly middle class and skilled people.

If someone wants some more background information.

A few decades ago during the Cold War, there were several large scale anti-caste movements, and this caused a lot of the moneyed upper caste (note that many of the upper caste are poor) to flee to the US where money often open doors. The immigration to the UK and the other English speaking countries tended to be more varied and more middle class based on skills (doctors, engineers, etc...).

It's widely known within India that a notable portion of the upper caste are based in the US, but in India the IT industry is one of the most caste-blind industries in India, along with how the majority of the IT industry is based in South India where casteism is traditionally less.

India does not have a single party majority either but an alliance majority

The agreement between the UK and EU ran to 1250 pages in English alone.

This might be a very non American problem, but people forget that there are social pressures to follow when you are middle class that cost more money.

This is one of those points of controversy that foreigners in Japan bring up. But for me the idea of making friends at work seemed unusual and I felt that the Japanese way of doing things was correct, and it come to me that the Japanese expat community is highly US-centric.

In Japan it is however common for people from university to graduate together enter their workplace together at the same job, and then get promoted together and change department together etc..

He is right in terms of major cities in Europe. I grew up in a small-mid sized town and I still get surprised when I meet someone I know, let alone cities the size of Atlanta.

I guess there is going to be a number of people whose parents were basically abusive.

I also would have preferred to spend more time with my friends than with my parents. Due to conflict with my parents I have no real desire to talk more to them nowadays either.

I think one of the reasons is because children are generally building their personality at high school, where as by the time we reach work we've already built over personality and we are no longer flexible.

I presume that you are an American. In many cultures the idea of making frie. In many cultures the idea of making friends at work is frowned upon because

Having a majority in parliament is the normal way of doing things

I think caravan might be extremely left wing though.

In my opinion the pandemic era saw a significant increase in employee headcount, and now we are seeing a "correction" of the employee headcount.

But I think the bigger point is that venture capital funding is really drying up and investors aren't investing as much. A lot of the market is basically "taking a loan to cover a loan that covers a loan.." and the market is no longer giving out loans as easily due to higher interest rates.