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
Form-From: A Design Space of Social Media Systems
arxiv.org
Framework for mapping the range of different social media systems - Amy Zhang, et al.
Information networks should have more 'serendipity' filters that take you outside the things you normally see. Follow graphs and interest graphs are great - but they are far more vulnerably to groupthink, tunnel vision, and filter bubbles.
The key difference is that sequential models maintain a dynamic representation of your current state. As you move through your feed, clicking on posts, subscribing to publications, engaging with notes, the model updates its understanding of where you are. It’s not just updating a long-term profile of your tastes. It’s tracking the momentum and... See more
Mike Cohen • How the Substack feed is learning to understand your reading journey
