Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
The Evaporative Cooling Effect - The Evaporative Cooling Effect is a term I learned from an excellent essay by Eliezer Yudowsky that describes a particular phenomena of group dynamics. It occurs when the most high value contributors to a community realize that the community is no longer serving their needs any more and so therefore, leave. When that happens, it drops the general quality of the community down such that the next most high value contributors now find the community underwhelming. Each layer of disappearances slowly reduces the average quality of the group until such a point that you reach the people who are so unskilled-and-unaware of it that they’re unable to tell that they’re part of a mediocre group.
"i'm here with you" hits much harder than "i'm here for you"
-molly mielke
“None of these anti-Instagram platforms can succeed over the long term because a true escape from something like Instagram would require not only getting off social platforms — any social platforms — but also getting out of society itself.“
Social Platform Trust & Safety and Social Platform Ownership & Governance
Turkish national social media platform. Re: Government control of social media - it’s not enough to be “publicly” owned if the values of transparency, algorithmic choice, etc aren’t there.