I haven't bothered to read the whole thing yet, but I've enjoyed the critiques so far - they're more detailed than what you'd usually find.
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I haven't bothered to read the whole thing yet, but I've enjoyed the critiques so far - they're more detailed than what you'd usually find.
Anything you're taking away from it to help SN?
It mostly just confirms my biases.
Part 1 - ad dominated businesses cause platforms to abuse customers in oblique ways
Part 2 - imo content and content rules are poorly organized because there's no hierarchy/composability/scarcity
Part 3 - bad content doesn't cost anything and it gets elevated because it costs nothing to upvote a car crash
Part 4 - people are especially bad when it costs them nothing to be bad
Part 5 - power to curate/moderate should be expensive to gain, exercise, and very limited in scope/effect
He hasn't written about his own solutions yet, but his hints are things that we're already familiar with:
You're out on the frontier. At some point, you need to be the one writing these think pieces, because very very few people have given this as much thought as you.
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Your summary of his 5 parts is better (I don't think he even gets these conclusions). I read his thing and, while interesting, I wish I had read this comment first.
I second @Undisciplined comment: you should write more of your thoughts about social media platforms - how they work and how to build them. Write them here and let us boost them in other places around the internet.
This article and its source, which mentions the tools social networks use to retain audience attention, reminded me of a simple post I saw on Nostr (which I unfortunately couldn’t find). What it basically said is that Nostr is much better than other social networks because it lets you directly reward content you liked—instead of useless content being rewarded just for attention. Even if something doesn’t deserve a single sat, the algorithm will still deem it useful, mirror it, and push engagement. Giving users the power to directly reward what’s good is the best approach.