Social Graph Design

Twitter became about arguing, Instagram became about showing off, Facebook became about people you went to school with saying weird things. The most important role in a social network is the vibe designer, because the big questions are sociological, not technological.

FB’s has an interface problem, not an algorithm problem… because people won’t affirmatively click on the things they actually deep down want to watch

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

a twitter 10x brainstorm, hear me out: IF every tweet was assigned a set of Topics via AI/NLP (auto or manual, mock-up below), and IF every creator thereby gained varying levels of “authority” in Topics based on how others w/ authority engaged w/ their tweets, THEN…

Something for decentralized social graph protocols to consider: Social connections are not homogeneous, but instead differ in their degree of: - intensity/affinity - context - duration - velocity

An idea that the Benchmark partners taught me: in social networks, you want the celebrities to join at the end, not the beginning New networks should mint new celebrities, not get built by existing ones My interest in chain runners was low since it was (investor) celebrity led