communnity

Music was effort.​ It was physical. It was tangible. It was communal.

If you look at the respective mission statements of Twitter and Facebook—"to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers" and “to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected”—what is striking is the assumption that these are fundamentally positive outcomes. There’s no... See more

Did they have to turn into a panopticon, where each of us is prisoner and guard simultaneously?

Streaks, of course, have the wonderful quality of being unbounded. You can maintain as many streaks as you like. If you don't think social capital has value, you've never seen, as I have, a young person sobbing over having to go on vacation without their phone, or to somewhere without cell or wifi access, only to see all their streaks broken. Some... See more

I suspected that a community can never get strong as a monolith, which has nothing to do but support the leader; the real way for it to grow is to incentivize sub-groups to form up and compete in team sports. We’re a tribal species, after all.

Whether you believe in the 1/9/90 rule of social networks or not,

Then, one day, Facebook snapped its fingers like Thanos and much of that dependable reach evaporated into ash. No longer would every one of your Page followers see every one of your posts. Facebook did what central banks do to combat inflation and raised interest rates on borrowing attention from the News Feed.