More of the Same

In the social networking game, you either die an innovator or live long enough to become a copy cat.

So, while there’s real merit to debating the merits of the antitrust case, it’s worth noting that our platforms have never felt more fragile in their lack of distinction, not because of any regulatory action but because of their own behavior. That’s not to say that regulators and policymakers shouldn’t increase that fragility. There’s a real argume... See more

I wrote a few weeks ago about how the nature of our social networks and content platforms leads to cultural sameness via supercharging fad culture. But increasingly the social networks and content platforms themselves suffer from the same effect.

We are so focused on evaluating our social networks and broadcast platforms from a distribution perspective that we often forget to analyze the other side of the two-sided content marketplace: creation. But our current internet culture is as much driven by frictionless distribution as it is by frictionless creation.