It’s important to note that there are some goals Facebook is currently trying to achieve, which LW2.0 is not currently trying to achieve. It might be able to answer them someday, but we’re currently trying to do one-thing-well and that thing is notably different from FB.
LW is currently trying to be a conversational-locus for intellectual discussion and progress with good epistemic standards. There are places where this trades off with against a social hub for hanging out, and a place for social coordination. Some of this is just because it’s hard to do a lot of things at once and we haven’t put the effort into being a good social hub. Some of it is because maintaining high epistemic standards is real hard, and doing it while also being the place to resolve social drama is even harder.
It’s important to note that there are some goals Facebook is currently trying to achieve, which LW2.0 is not currently trying to achieve. It might be able to answer them someday, but we’re currently trying to do one-thing-well and that thing is notably different from FB.
LW is currently trying to be a conversational-locus for intellectual discussion and progress with good epistemic standards. There are places where this trades off with against a social hub for hanging out, and a place for social coordination. Some of this is just because it’s hard to do a lot of things at once and we haven’t put the effort into being a good social hub. Some of it is because maintaining high epistemic standards is real hard, and doing it while also being the place to resolve social drama is even harder.