Everyone who makes the transition seems to agree ... it's the future of social media.
Aside from iMessage and whatever the equivalent is on Android, there is Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal and Facebook Messenger - and those are basically group text apps. And there are many more such apps. The "town square" idea is dead, you can't fit the whole world into a town and it was silly to ever consider that.
As long as the above exists it doesn't matter to what extent the others become engagement cesspools. What is commonly called "social media" now is the new daytime television. Television had its engagement driven algorithms as well - slower due to the tech of the time, but still there. The content was optimized nationally per timeslot rather than individually.
Btw, nice national television metaphor
I assume by default that people who want large 1-to-n communication are not interested in actual social activity but rather broadcasting, selling, or proselytizing. They want a podium, or a parasocial Twitter feed-like experience where the speaker can have their say, and the people can comment and either get ignored or immediately countered by trolls or acolytes. The television age's version of this in the 90's was called "Jerry Springer." This is not social.
enricoleon•2w ago
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