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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Social Graph Design
people think the solution to the web becoming a big performance stage is to have lots of fragmented smaller communities. But finding the right community is really hard. A better way is to use novel technologies and network mechanics to matchmake in real-time. You get a new community every second depending on what you’re thinking.
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
nametwitter.comMay The Feed Be With You: how algorithmic feeds create the best content experience for users
Eric Fengefeng.medium.com
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 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…