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
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)
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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.
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Reducing partisan animosity content in feeds reduces affective polarization
The pattern is the same: the most sophisticated platforms are treating user behavior as sequences, not snapshots, recognizing that static embeddings miss the temporal dynamics and session context of how people actually use these products.