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 ideal user experience for a network-based product is often a moving target, based on the density of the network.
If your app’s value improves with each additional user (e.g., from more content or more users interacting with you), then you should likely sacrifice the user experience until the network value reaches... See more
Nikita Bierx.comMoreover, the metaphor breaks down entirely in a post-scarcity, algorithmically mediated world, where there is no obvious relationship between the opinions a person puts forth and where that opinion shows up, often in a mechanically distorted way. The marketplace of ideas assumes a relatively even distribution of megaphones, or a random... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
TikTok to the Grammys: How a ‘Bridgerton’ Musical Beat Broadway (Published 2022)
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Supporting Hard Conversations in Close Relationships Through Design
The research explores how digital design can enhance the experience of navigating difficult conversations within close relationships, emphasizing the importance of consent, emotional regulation, and effective communication strategies.
amandabaughan.comSupporting Hard conversations w digital design
Making internet hang out spaces shouldn't require scribes or high priests — & it definitely shouldn't req. mathematical prowess and/or a seed round
XHtwitter.comBesides the infinite social media maelstrom1 and the continuously growing commercialization of the web2, we will soon have to deal with an avalanche of AI-generated content3 as well. The corners of the internet cultivated by individuals are important for its vitality and may even become critical to the very survival of a humane online ecosystem.... See more
lucasdidthis
The Evaporative Cooling Effect - The Evaporative Cooling Effect is a term I learned from an excellent essay by Eliezer Yudowsky that describes a particular phenomena of group dynamics. It occurs when the most high value contributors to a community realize that the community is no longer serving their needs any more and so therefore, leave. When that happens, it drops the general quality of the community down such that the next most high value contributors now find the community underwhelming. Each layer of disappearances slowly reduces the average quality of the group until such a point that you reach the people who are so unskilled-and-unaware of it that they’re unable to tell that they’re part of a mediocre group.
