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hamdingers 18 hours ago

What is lost is social networking. Texting or calling people you already know isn't networking.

Every social network experiences convergent evolutionary pressure driving it to become social media instead.

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Gigachad 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Group chats are social networking. You’ll meet people you didn’t already know.

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blell 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe we have different concepts of what a group chat is. To me, group chats have my friends, and we will never invite anybody who is not already a friend of everybody. They are supposed to be high-trust environments.

	▲	Gigachad 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Somewhat different. Most of the group chats I’m in are related to house parties where the host knows everyone but I don’t. Or they are interest / hobby related.

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singpolyma3 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Once they hit a certain size or topiclessness they become social media again

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16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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Groxx 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

well-run Discord servers can be outstanding in the same way as any well-run community