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shit you should read if you are building or care about how social networks are evolving
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All about social networks
What’s Right and What’s Wrong with Optimizing for Engagement
medium.com
This brings anyone in the social media game an important lesson: enabling and preserving a path from newcomer to middle class is crucial for maintaining a moat. When it becomes too hard to “make it” in established channels, the door opens for new channels to take off.
Jaryd Hermann • ByteDance | TikTok: Origins, How They Grow, and The Future of The Internet
Great article by Ed Zitron, on the sad state of the web in recent years and its accelerating enshittification ‘thanks’ to “Degenerative AI.” He starts with the Reddit coming IPO and lays down the case for the increasing corruption of content, search results, and eventually LLMs themselves. “Generative artificial intelligence is poison for an internet dependent on algorithms”
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Spheres of Self: Performativity and Parasociality in the Metaverse
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