HACKER Q&A
📣 Treelight

What are the problems with social networks today?


What are the problems with social networks today?


  👤 mikewarot Accepted Answer ✓
The biggest problem is that the voting systems are one dimensional. Something could be any combination of things in multiple dimensions, but they all limit things to one dimension... up or down... which is nuts.

You should be able to tag a post in multiple dimensions... i.e. Humor, Validity/Truth, Politicialness, Interestingness, AdultsOnly, etc.


👤 lovefeature
1.Your customers must register to view your homepage. 2.Can't add your other social links on your homepage. so,i made a new social media named AloveZ,this is my homepage(@bing): https://www.alovez.com/bing

👤 smt88
Interacting with strangers.

Facebook was amazing until it forced you to see news and strangers' comments on that news.

Social media is best when it replicates real life (I only see people I have whitelisted).


👤 beardyw
To me, the biggest problem is that people can gain financially from posting content and the returns are measured by how much it is shared.

Not offering a solution.


👤 ggm
They're routinely gamed for political or financial advantage, including by state actors.

👤 crate_barre
It’s warping people’s nature towards the vain and superficial side.