Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
The Potential for AI to Restore Local Community Connectedness, The Bedrock of a Healthy Democracy — Digitalist Papers
Laura Bisestodigitalistpapers.com
Community and
All about social networks and Alternatives to advertising
Signal estimates it’ll cost them $50M to run the service by 2025
To understand exactly why this is the case, let’s consider Chesterton’s Fence, described by G. K. Chesterton himself as follows:
There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use... See more
fs.blog • Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking - Farnam Street
Don’t remove a fence until you’ve understood why someone put it up in the first place
Though people aren’t rational, I believe everyone is reasonable. As in, they always have their reasons, and those reasons always make sense within their worldview. More often than not, I wouldn’t do what someone else does — because I’m not them. But if I can understand the circumstances through which someone lives and sees the world, then I can... See more
Social Platform Trust & Safety
from the chat app Quiet (https://tryquiet.org/) - good example of a “threat model” for a communications/social platform