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
Planetary - Social media for humans, not algorithms.
planetary.social
“None of these anti-Instagram platforms can succeed over the long term because a true escape from something like Instagram would require not only getting off social platforms — any social platforms — but also getting out of society itself.“
After 1500 in a Clubhouse/Meerkat/Roadtrip any other attempt at synchronous only comms a few things break:
1. Notification overload
2. Conversations get boring b/c diverge too far from interest without the context of someone I recognize talking
3. Feels less special:
2/
Blind
teamblind.com
Infrastructural goods are strategic because of the manner in which these three properties interact. Without monopolistic tendencies, the market could correct with competition. Without the variety in downstream uses, the power of infrastructure would be narrow (and users in a narrow domain can more easily coordinate countervailing power). And... See more
Robin Berjon • Digital Sovereignty
Nilay Patel on the Ezra Klein podcast talking about whether AI will break the Internet:
Every social media platform right now is turning into a short form video home shopping network. Linkedin just added short form videos. Like, they're all headed towards the same place all the time because they all have the same pressures.
And what you see is those
... See moreLooking around, it’s easy to be disheartened about people and the state of the world, but on Reddit I have experienced the opposite: people naturally create community, and they are smarter, funnier, and more helpful and caring than I think we often give them credit for.
And this is not because our users are some special subset of humanity. They’re... See more
And this is not because our users are some special subset of humanity. They’re... See more
KG • Anthology #1: Reddit
incentives are everything, and Reddit doesn’t reward self-promoters
