How Group Chats Rule the World
The negative observation has been just how poorly applications like Zoom and Skype actually work for large social groups. It is only really possible for one person to speak at a time, so it tends to default into a bit of a lecture.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
but their apparent pervasiveness underlines the consensus that the public internet exists only for the purposes of yelling into the void
Gideon Lewis-Kraus • Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
WhatsApp which allow small closed groups to talk to each other and exchange images attests to the desire to have more focused, private conversations.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Messaging apps, in contrast, tend to allow users themselves to form the subgroups most relevant to them. Facebook Groups is a more flexible architecture than News Feed. Humans contain multitudes, and social apps should flex to their various communication privacy needs.
Eugene Wei • And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep
Like newsletters, what’s said in podcasts is non-indexed, non-optimized, and non-gamified. It’s a more forgiving space for communication than the internet at large.
Dark forests like newsletters and podcasts are growing areas of activity. As are other dark forests, like Slack channels, private Instagrams, invite-only message boards, text groups, Sna... See more
Dark forests like newsletters and podcasts are growing areas of activity. As are other dark forests, like Slack channels, private Instagrams, invite-only message boards, text groups, Sna... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
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