Is it possible to create a social network that brings together people from all walks of life, like the old school social networks did in the beginning?
If so, what features would such a network need in order to be successful and gain market share?
A few of my ideas include: Gamifying moderation by making it a controversial activity. When something is flagged, it could go into a "controversial fight" where people debate whether it deserves moderation or not. Karma could be earned double for participating in moderation activities, to encourage people to use the feature. But it's more like a community involved thing. Alternately, mod teams could be elected paid positions and up for reelection yearly using ranked choice voting. It might be a cool opportunity to experience ranked choice voting on a wide scale.
Another option might be to use AI to categorize every post based on political leanings (e.g. center left, center right, left field, right field, neutral/apolitical). Profiles could act as a link tree of their own, and potentially even as an aggregator for imported online activity (e.g. RSS feeds, Facebook posts, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.).
In this politically polarized world, it's hard to predict what the next iteration of social media will look like. Will text-based platforms like Twitter continue to dominate, or will a TikTok-style attention grabbing platform for text emerge? What do you think the future of social media will look like, and how can we create a platform that is successful and brings people together from all walks of life?
"Is it possible to create a social network that brings together people from all walks of life, like the old school social networks did in the beginning?"
I think we'll see more and more focused communities of interest popping up which is ironic: as the means to communicate increases the number of people we have in our social circles will decrease for various reasons. There is no digital replacement for meeting people in the real world.
Who said so? Who said that the outcome of creating social media networks would be unification and not civil wars and unrests?
Aren't we made to have 150 friends max? I think the human brain is not designed for social media, and there won't be a global platform anytime soon (unless a Gov does it, like WeChat)
Twitter has different cohorts that intermingle and it's interesting to watch wildly different people discuss things together. You have the shitposters, the political zealots, the meme-lords, the sports aficionados, the karens, boomers/zoomers, literal government spies/spooks/natsec types, celebrities, brands, infosec types, etc
All chatting away to each other. It's fun to watch, if you take the time.