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
Social media has evolved from text to photo to video to streams of text, photo, and video, and finally, it seems to have reached a kind of settled end state, in which TikTok and Meta are trying to become the same thing: a screen showing hours and hours of video made by people we don’t know. Social media has turned into television.
Everything Is Television
You cannot fix social media by having a non-profit run it or by guiding it with some ethical principles (which at any rate means absolutely nothing without accountability to people). There is simply no universal ranking of content acceptability — there are in fact likely as many different rankings as there are people — and even if there were there... See more
The understanding that at the core of a lot of the creativity that we saw come out of the industry of building software in the last 20 years was empowered by a very specific form of organization, and that we need to find alternatives to that form of organization…we’ve been focusing on the software, and not really focusing on the vehicles that
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