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
Many concepts that sound good on paper are infeasible to implement, or simply don’t produce the expected results. It’s frustrating when that happens, of course, but the pace of experimentation and learning at a startup is unparalleled. I think this is an especially important form of rigor for theorycels like me. Building product forces a different... See more
Jasmine Sun • exit interview
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The past generation of social apps won the market through a playbook:
- building big networks with feeds for discovery
- creating a followers/status competition for engagement
- bringing together creators and audiences
- monetizing with ads
- supporting photo,... See more
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I went down a little curiosity rabbit hole today.
Thinking about product offerings for niche communities:
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Bringing this all together, the technologies through which we see the public shape how we understand it , making it more likely that we end up in the one situation rather than the other. As you have surely guessed by now, I believe Twitter/X, Facebook, and other social media services are just such technologies for shaping publics. Many of the... See more
Henry Farrell • We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong
How Clubhouse brought the culture war to Silicon Valley’s venture capital community
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