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Andrew Chen • What today’s social apps can learn from Web 2.0, the social network revolution from 15 years ago at andrewchen
The second wave of social is about having people be more conscious about building a graph that best matches the needs of what they want to get from that graph. Initially, importing from your contact/address book made sense. But now we can say that was a mistake. You don't need to follow all people you know on all services.
Eugene Wei • Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)
... See moreShould the human fashion editor tell you what to like or should it be the algorithmic machine, in the form of the Amazon bookstore, Spotify feed, or Netflix home page? That is the central dilemma of culture in Filterworld.
The former option is mercurial and driven by elite gatekeepers, a powerful group built up over a century of modern cultural ind
Algorithmic taste, in Peter’s case as a consumer, was both boring and alienating. On the creator side, by contrast, ubiquity can be profitable.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
On the dimension of utility, Facebook's network effects continue to be pure and unbounded. The more people that are on Facebook, the more it's useful for certain things for which a global directory is useful. Even though many folks don't use Facebook a lot, it's rare I can't find them on Messenger if I don't have their email address or phone number... See more
Eugene Wei • Invisible Asymptotes
Come for the tool, stay for the network”
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Who we follow has a disproportionate effect on the relevance and quality of what we see on much of Western social media because the apps were designed that way.