I also dream for this. Personally I would remove likes/reactions though. As we've seen with Instagram it's too easy to chase that dopamine rush/compare number of likes. Comments are enough in my opinion.

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prisenco 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Likes/reactions should be hidden to everyone else except the poster, and not used for any kind of ranking.

And comments should be disabled by default. Users should have to take the extra step to enable comments ("I would like feedback") and if they're off by default, it won't feel strange or negative to the viewer.

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vjvjvjvjghv 6 days ago | parent [-]

Likes shouldn’t be visible to the poster either. Once you see the number of likes you quickly see that radical posts get the most likes and start posting more of it.

The best online discussions I have seen where at simple forums where the posts were listed in chronological order without likes or anything.

	▲	xenobeb 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I completely agree but most people aren't that interested in some kind of socratic online dialogue. I don't expect to learn much at all from internet discussion at this point. It serves a minimal socialization purpose and then my actual learning is from books and language models.

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fnordlord 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Limiting the # of shares in some way would be nice also. If people could only share one thing per day, they'd be more thoughtful of what to spend it on.

I actually had a moment just yesterday, imagining/hoping my toddler daughter will grow up and refer to my phone in the same way I did with my parents cigarettes when I was a kid. My mom always claims she had no idea they were dangerous when she started as a teen. I wonder if we'll all sound the same with social media and our devices to our kids.

	▲	qweiopqweiop 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		If you haven't, read the anxious generation. We already know. But it's addictive/unhealthy in a different way and all the biggest companies in the world are behind it.