product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
We cultivate and strengthen community through experiences in music, dance, art, and food that are rooted in our Appalachian traditions. Our products are these experiences: Meaningful and, hopefully, transformational experiences that make you feel invited into a community. Once we are all there in community, we can talk about ways to strengthen it... See more
Asynchronous forms of engagement can be synchronized with regular weekly or daily reports provided by the platform that serve something of the function that “talk of the town” columns in local newspapers used to provide.
No one owns the traditions. We are all here as stewards. Many of the regulars act as if they’re hosts. Newer people have deemed themselves hosts, too. They’ll often go and grab people and invite them to join them on the dancefloor. It’s always been that way — people feel responsible for maintaining the tradition of invitation and welcoming. People... See more
Most app-making is just being extremely disciplined in deciding what you’re going to reinvent.
There are proven ways to get 85% push notification approval, how to sort of a list of suggested people, and how to share content to iMessage vs. Instagram Stories vs. X
It happens
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.