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
The understanding that at the core of a lot of the creativity that we saw come out of the industry of building software in the last 20 years was empowered by a very specific form of organization, and that we need to find alternatives to that form of organization…we’ve been focusing on the software, and not really focusing on the vehicles that
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techdirt.comA social media app that aims to be town square is different to a social networking app that aims to provide a smaller, safe community. The latter has a far easier time banning accounts from entities like ICE, because it can set a tighter set of community rules. So one lesson is perhaps that we need — or at least, many people need — a pluralistic... See more
How Social Media Affordances Foster Intergroup Contact (academic paper) - Georg Voronin
This sounds spectacularly self-centered: that you can only quit a thing, or modify your usage of it, when it fails to serve you. But if we think of our phones and social media as addictive products, which they certainly are, then the classic addiction model makes sense: you only consider quitting when the negative impacts (the dead feeling of the... See more
julia kamin (@juliakamin.bsky.social)
bsky.app
Collaborative google doc w research studies on social platforms’ impact
The polarization footprint doesn’t offer a silver bullet. But it gives us something we’ve long lacked: a rigorous way to quantify how much our feeds are shaping division. It opens the door to real accountability — not just for platforms, but for regulators, designers, and society at large.
