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Social Networks & Sociable Protocols
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- On the other side, new social spaces will continue to emerge and bring with them new rulesets, dynamics, and discovery algorithms to connect new people in new ways. We argue that this is the primary value of social networks and should be their sole focus: developing and providing different “flavors” of content and algorithms
from Spheres of Self: Performativity and Parasociality in the Metaverse by Koji
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- Moving to protocols, not platforms, is an approach for free speech in the twenty-first century. Rather than relying on a “marketplace of ideas” within an individual platform—which can be hijacked by those with malicious intent—protocols could lead to a marketplace of ideals, where competition occurs to provide better services that minimize the impa... See more
from Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech by Mike Masnick
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