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“People feel their membership reflects well on them because it shows they look at the world in a slightly different way from others,”

Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people

My latest column at The New Yorker is about the revenge of homepages: Why we're turning toward individual websites as the platform era of the internet continues to disintegrate.

I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a ch... See more

People Aren’t Posting: What happens when people revolt against social media just becoming media?

Julia Alexander posting-nexus.ghost.io

No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms

Michelle Rose Joseph michellerosejoseph.substack.com

Ideas from George Mack:

1. Subprime audience - A creator optimising for size of audience and ending up with a junk audience. They end up producing content they themselves wouldn’t consume.

2. The forgetting paradox - Wordle outperformed every headline in society's consciousness for 2022. All the news everyone was worried outlasted by a novelty game..

If I ran an investment fund, I’d have a simple thesis: • People are increasingly willing to pay for productivity software. • Online learning is about to explode because we’re losing faith in the traditional college system. • It’s becoming easier to monetize socia... See more

David Perell x.com

"Social media turned you, me, and everyone into broadcasters (if aspirational ones). The results have been disastrous but also highly pleasurable, not to mention massively profitable—a catastrophic combination."

The Age of Social Media Is Ending - The Atlantic, November 2022

@patrick_oshag I think with so much data and algorithmic-everything, the value of hand curation will continue to increase. 1,000 movies the computer suggests are not as compelling as 1 movie from a person I trust. I think there must be an analytical corollary to this, but I'm not yet sure what

Simon Sarris x.com

“The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-mediu