⚖️📲 Social media punishment does not need to be a Kafkaesque nightmare

People working at these platforms are more and more conscious of the fact that they can have tremendous negative impacts on society, and so they need to design the way they recommend and reward content carefully, and I think it’s likely that giving over some of the power to do that to the users of the platform could have wide-ranging positive impac... See more

Second-order regulatory maturity entails more than extending existing duties—it requires reimagining platforms not as passive hosts of content, but as engineered environments whose very structure determines the distribution of risk, attention, and agency. Absent this evolution, the regulatory model risks collapsing into performative governance : ad... See more

Of course, whether Facebook draws the line in the right place, or according to the right considerations, is a matter of legitimate public debate. And it is entirely reasonable to argue that private companies shouldn’t be making so many big decisions about what content is acceptable on their own. It would clearly be better if these decisions were ma... See more

-Open source feed algorithms - The systems that control what we see on our feeds have a profound impact on our mental health and understanding of the world. A sociable protocol would allow developers to offer new kinds of algorithms to communities who want to see the world in different ways.