Can an app revive acquaintanceship?

Large parasocial platforms transformed the internet into a hostile and impersonal place. They feed our FOMO to keep us clicking. They exaggerate our differences for "engagement". They create engines for stardom to keep us creeping. They bait us into nutritionless and sensationalist content. Humanity cannot subsist on hype alone.

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As far as how humans connect to one another, what’s next appears to be group chats and private messaging and forums, returning back to a time when we mostly just talked to the people we know. Maybe that’s a better, less problematic way to live life. Maybe feed and algorithms and the “global town square” were a bad idea. But I find myself desperatel... See more

Elad Gil: How would you encourage people to find community today? So say that you're either a teenager and you're either going to college or not, but you're thinking about how do I plug into people who are like me? How would you approach that? And then relatedly, if you were to move to a specific geography, where would you go and why and how would

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