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RamaSchneider t1_je4ic48 wrote

I think that social media as we understand it today is going to disappear. Curating on a personal or system wide level is going to be made impossible by the massive amount of new material that will generated daily.

There will be social media like sites that give the appearance of what we are comfortable with right now, but those sites will be closed systems meant to provide a place with a suitable and predictable set of protections (or lack of).

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zuzg t1_je4jmfi wrote

Dunno reddit is also social media and I don't see it going away.
It becomes more moderated to follow laws and ToS which it already does to a significant higher account then couple of years back.

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RamaSchneider t1_je4mdlm wrote

I agree with you regarding Reddit being part of "social media", and I think Reddit in particular is well suited to a future model.

What will have to change, in my thinking, is how outside information can be forced into what we know as a sub-reddit. That's where the closed system comes into play: the curating part.

(As an aside, I'm the type that likes to indulge in a random inflow for a bit every day)

So if Reddit changes in that way, I don't think it reflects what we know today - but I could be way off on all this.

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zuzg t1_je4muw8 wrote

>As an aside, I'm the type that likes to indulge in a random inflow for a bit every day

That's basically why I sort the Frontpage by rising/top all regularly. You see much more smaller subreddits this way and it's easier to participate in discussions.

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OriginalCompetitive t1_je655to wrote

Reddit’s days are numbered. “Dear ChatGDP5, please simulate for me a message posting platform focused on the topic of politics. Give me a mix of 10% learning new things, 10% lame inside jokes, and 80% correcting idiots who post obviously wrong things that I can sarcastically correct. Mix in my favorite recurring personalities from the last session.”

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artix111 t1_je73poa wrote

People won’t write long messages anymore after they get used to how accessible the most complex of information will be. It will get that good.

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