Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
When a platform is designed to suppress your reach while amplifying extremists, staying isn’t pragmatic. It’s masochistic.
This all fundamentally misunderstands the nature of power on these platforms. Success on social media is about building community. And you can’t build community if someone else has all the control over how that community works.
This all fundamentally misunderstands the nature of power on these platforms. Success on social media is about building community. And you can’t build community if someone else has all the control over how that community works.
Stop Begging. Start Building
One of the best ways to grow community engagement is to ask for feedback, take it seriously, and act upon it with excitement. The feedback loops and demonstration of it do wonders for investment from members.
TLDR: If you truly give a damn, they will too
Mike MacCombietwitter.comTimeleft - Hello Stranger
timeleft.com
Everyone gave me a version of the same answer: Taiwan’s democracy is less than 40 years old. Martial law is still in living memory, and no one wants to return. So Taiwanese people don’t take elections and participation for granted; as cyber ambassador Audrey Tang put it, Taiwan views its government not as a “fossilized” institution, but as... See more
“Networks connect; communities care”
medium.com
As a simplistic starting point, the model in which public actors fund infrastructure (or the bootstrapping of infrastructure through private-sector coordination and patient capital) and private actors fund innovation in products and services on top of that infrastructure is a good one.
Robin Berjon • Digital Sovereignty
Technology cannot fix the fact that freedom is an endless meeting, but it can make the meetings shorter and less painful with new collaborative tools and by automating the worst of the bureaucracy