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shit you should read if you are building or care about how social networks are evolving

In the Next Era of Social, Build Rituals, Not Habits

The "product" of any online social space is the content & the interactions with other people there, all of which is shaped by the UX of the software underlying it and the decisions of the “stewards” at the helm.

Sam Liebeskind

Stop Trying to Make a "Good" Social Media Site

Erik Hoel theintrinsicperspective.com

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The next $1B consumer startup will be a vertical social network—here’s why

Olivia Moore medium.com

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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

Yancey Strickler onezero.medium.com

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Block Party's Twitter Product is on Indefinite Hiatus

blockpartyapp.com

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Blind

teamblind.com

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The natural end state of marketplaces and social media is the eventual shift from user generated supply to professionalized supply/content. They can fight it for some time, but eventually there is no other way to keep scaling (or prevent power users from peeling off)

Kevin Kwok twitter.com

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Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #267

youtube.com

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