> It seems to me social media is ripe for disruption.
I think what we see is that every social media site goes down pretty much the same way at some point.
FB was great until they started that whole recommended post stuff which fucked up the feed.
Instagram was great until they were bought by Facebook and had to get some metrics straight, too.
TikTok will be the next one to go down as influencers and other parasitic users tear it down, flood it with low quality content etc.
There will be something after TikTok. And TikTok will copy their features and FB will (try to) buy them and ruin them that way, too. It all goes down eventually.
I agree! But what I've learnt from being on HN for a fairly long time is that online communities can be built to last. Maybe not forever, but for a long time. I think _community_ is the important part, as soon as the site builder tries to cater to everyone it eventually just becomes another ad platform.
I think we might have had something like that community when we were all hanging around in bulletin boards something like... 15 to 20 years ago.
I remember that I had a very dark time and some moderator (I was one, too) managed to find out my phone number (I think he dailed every number with my family name in our town till he found mine) and called me, after I had posted in a moderator-only group that I would take some time off and wasn't sure about returning because everything was shit.
That really touched me, although we had and have never met. It was human and very unexpected and I don't think you'd find something like that in modern day communities, build on Facebook.
Also: FB Groups probably killed bulletin boards because it was just very easy. What a loss.
I think what we see is that every social media site goes down pretty much the same way at some point.
FB was great until they started that whole recommended post stuff which fucked up the feed.
Instagram was great until they were bought by Facebook and had to get some metrics straight, too.
TikTok will be the next one to go down as influencers and other parasitic users tear it down, flood it with low quality content etc.
There will be something after TikTok. And TikTok will copy their features and FB will (try to) buy them and ruin them that way, too. It all goes down eventually.