All about social networks
shit you should read if you are building or care about how social networks are evolving
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All about social networks
Position Paper on Deliberative Tech_Apr 3 Convening
arxiv.orgSocial media is a gnarly coordination problem we need to decompose - A Warm Space
awarm.leaflet.pub
Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
futurism.com
When a platform is designed to suppress your reach while amplifying extremists, staying isn’t pragmatic. It’s masochistic.
This all fundamentally misunderstands the nature of power on these platforms. Success on social media is about building community. And you can’t build community if someone else has all the control over how that community works.
This all fundamentally misunderstands the nature of power on these platforms. Success on social media is about building community. And you can’t build community if someone else has all the control over how that community works.
Stop Begging. Start Building
Instead of asking whether or not a platform optimizes for engagement, it can be more helpful to ask how explicit or implicit these engagement signals are, and provide users with more controls to allow them to tweak their online experience.
However, some types of engagement, such as votes and likes, come from controls designed to solicit feedback, while other types of engagement, such as clicks and watch time, are more implicit. In general both implicit and explicit engagement signals provide distinct and useful information to recommenders.
What’s Right and What’s Wrong with Optimizing for Engagement
medium.com
