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
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 OShaughnessytwitter.com
town square that spans the entire globe. Our aim, then, is to show a way past this impasse. The two views ar
Jon Askonas • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
TikTok to the Grammys: How a ‘Bridgerton’ Musical Beat Broadway (Published 2022)
New York Timesnytimes.com
How to de-risk building a social network
The components that have the most engineering scope tend to be wholly reusable—such as the friendfinder & invite system. The fastest way to arrive at an app that resonates is to run rapid experiments by only changing the interaction model
Social Network Testing Stack for Rapid Iteration - create the reusable components, then just iterate on the ‘interaction model’
In preparing for change, many of us talk about decentralisation (or "decent" for short) but that's an abstract word that fails to evoke just how thoroughly political a project it is. There is no technical solution that can produce decentralisation on its own; decentralisation cannot be technosolutionist and succeed at the same time. The "decent"... See more
Decent Imaginaries
Few, if any, of this moment’s apparently unstoppable tech platforms will survive for long. The people on them will eventually leave—when they’re forced to do so by the continuous degradation of their experience, or because they’re forced to do so because their governments put the hammer down, as Brazil recently demonstrated—or sometimes when they... See more
Erin Kissane • Against the Dark Forest
Incumbents can be unseated
