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The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented

An idea that the Benchmark partners taught me: in social networks, you want the celebrities to join at the end, not the beginning New networks should mint new celebrities, not get built by existing ones My interest in chain runners was low since it was (investor) celebrity led

Patrick OShaughnessy twitter.com

sari

For example, in one experiment, Stroud found that when comment sections on news sites replaced the “like” button with a “respect” button, users engaged with the content and each other in a less partisan way. In a few cases, the “respect” button led people to be more willing to click on comments expressing politics that differed from their own.

Sam Liebeskind

The illusionary perception that social media has brought us closer has faded. Living a performative life for the Internet is a recipe for emptiness. What has been revealed is that we are alone. We crave connection. Wherever we end up going, we want it to be more real. This means we should probably stop supporting centralized platforms, even if they... See more

Sam Liebeskind