I'm interested in how many different formats social media can take.
Twitter and Substack are certainly my favorite for the reasons you've mentioned but also because they are first and foremost *textually based.*
I've never been able to dive deep into Instagram purely because I don't have enough good photos to warrant posting. IG breeds this odd perfectionism to many people to the point that they create finstas just to post candids and other nonserious or unglamorous photos.
I find that Discord is great at exactly what they originally marketed it as: pre-existing gaming communities that want to talk over voice chat. It's rather difficult to find new discord communities naturally, you have to be invited. Perhaps I'm using it wrong or the wall of the walled garden is too high.
Tumblr has always been an interesting one but I think that has more to do with the actual people using it. It's fairly easy to find new communities, posts are public with public comment and private dm's. I really like their anonymous ask feature, I don't think that's been replicated elsewhere.
Fun to think of other formats and how to strike the balance between public and open vs completely walled off.
I'm interested in how many different formats social media can take.
Twitter and Substack are certainly my favorite for the reasons you've mentioned but also because they are first and foremost *textually based.*
I've never been able to dive deep into Instagram purely because I don't have enough good photos to warrant posting. IG breeds this odd perfectionism to many people to the point that they create finstas just to post candids and other nonserious or unglamorous photos.
I find that Discord is great at exactly what they originally marketed it as: pre-existing gaming communities that want to talk over voice chat. It's rather difficult to find new discord communities naturally, you have to be invited. Perhaps I'm using it wrong or the wall of the walled garden is too high.
Tumblr has always been an interesting one but I think that has more to do with the actual people using it. It's fairly easy to find new communities, posts are public with public comment and private dm's. I really like their anonymous ask feature, I don't think that's been replicated elsewhere.
Fun to think of other formats and how to strike the balance between public and open vs completely walled off.