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Divya Siddarth • An Internet for Humans: Proof-of-Personhood Explained
Putting humans back in the loop in certain capacities, such as through middleware, is potentially transformative. So is scaling back the algorithms. It’s probably time to get rid of wholly automated trends features. Gaming them is a key element in creating majority illusions, projecting false consensus, and driving abuse toward Main Characters.
Renee DiResta • Invisible Rulers
The internet has dramatically changed our ability to know things, but our ability to change things has remained the same, or possibly diminished as a) most of our free-time is now spread out in unsatisfying micro doses of scrolling throughout the day b) seeming has become more important than doing.
On the Internet, clapping for essential workers is
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fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
The 3rd corollary to Metcalfe’s law: the more benefits a network provides, the more it enslaves users. Three factors lock users in: a platform’s monopolistic aptitude, its habit-forming design, and the fact that users benefit only from the platform they have heavily invested in.
