Social Graph Design

Social Graph Design

The medium is the message. This page is about how the decisions we make about social graph and network design impact behavior.

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If Twitter had to start over without its graph, on the other hand, it would be dead (which speaks to why Twitter clones like BlueSky which are just Twitter minus the graph and with the same clunky onboarding process seem destined for failure). The new For You feed gives us a partial taste of what that might look like, and it's not pretty.

Eugene Wei • How to Blow Up a Timeline

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Complexity in Social Networks

Matthew Hartman medium.com

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The End of Social Media

Michael Mignano mignano.medium.com

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How to Kill a Startup: A Short, Ten Step Guide

Tom White whitenoise.email

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May The Feed Be With You: how algorithmic feeds create the best content experience for users

Eric Feng efeng.medium.com

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Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto

Sriram Krishnan a16zcrypto.com

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The Boneyard Principle: Why the Next Big Thing Will Emerge From a Failed Idea

David King and Mishti Sharma every.to

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A thread about social graphs and how web3 brings a paradigm shift in how social networks will be built in the future: 🧵

nader dabit twitter.com

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What we talk about when we talk about The Algo

Vicki Boykis vicki.substack.com

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