Cancel culture creates a mega opportunity for a new social network -- Twitter 2.0
1. Pseudonymous (no verified profiles!) so you can't be cancelled and policies are applied fairly
2. Public follow graph + DMs (Twitter + Telegram)
3. Discovery engine to find insightful new voices
One thing mainstream media outlets misunderstand: Substack is not one platform, it is thousands of platforms, and you get to pick which ones to be part of. And Substack has come up with a powerful way to moderate those platforms: Rather than rely on the company to hire a team of moderators, Substack democratized the process, giving full moderation... See more
To account for the gaps in these solutions, many social computing systems use multiple tiers: Tier 1 is often algorithmic moderation for the most easy-to-catch problems. Tier 2 is human moderation, either paid (like Facebook) or community (like Reddit), depending on the platform.
Over the past decade, the social networks broke their promise to content creators.
The backlash has just begun.
New @ScreenshotEssay: The Algorithmic Feed, Content Creators, and Broken Promises