product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
An Albert Einstein quote: “Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
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you can estimate the quality of someone’s opinions about large scale social systems by evaluating their experience as a small scale organiser
if you can’t create harmonious relationships in a collective of 15 ppl, why should I trust your opinion about policing or governance?
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
Centralised moderation isn't the only option that doesn't work. We also need to eliminate any option that doesn't have a credible mean of doing the work — and it's a lot of work, meaning that either someone needs to get paid or you need a lot of volunteers. And punting it to the users can never work.