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Chris Dixon
@cdixon.eth
To those who say toxic culture is inevitable in scaled online communities: I’d say the web and email are doing well. There is toxic stuff of course but also sufficient tools to screen it out. Architecture matters.
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William Saar
@saarw
Hasn't email become a closed garden where big tech act as gatekeepers? Is it viable to expect your e-mails to be delivered through a provider that doesn't have a partnership team with the other big inboxes? Spam is also worse outside Gmail...
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@vlad
Isn’t the better conclusion here that tools matter?
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IrishMarine94
@bpo
What do you think foments toxic culture on Twitter/Facebook? Algos which make toxic content viral?
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Hunter Lampson
@hl
love this idea. Internet Architecture : Digital World :: Laws of Physics : Physical Word
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Chu Ka-Cheong
@kc
What do you think about communities in reddits? I generally think that moderation is needed to keep the toxic stuffs out, but moderation should be done by individual communities who define their rules.
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JA Westenberg
@joanwestenberg.eth
But I think human choice comes into play here as well. We curate the people in our circle. If we can’t actively curate non toxic people, we cannot expect platforms to do the work for us. Who we engage with and surround ourselves with is always up to us.
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Karthik Senthil
@karthiksenthil
True story! If your biz model depends on toxicity, you have no choice but to tolerate it at the minimum, and embrace it at the max. Email doesn't have a biz model (since its a protocol), so clients were able to implement filtering b/c users demanded it.
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joshcs.eth
@jcs
@perl
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
Also YouTube comments went full 180 from terrible cesspool to pretty positive vibe
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Hiten Shah
@hiten
@perl community
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@tomskyrme
Values based social design does this. Standards are set and reinforced by the community
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Nick Smith
@iamnick.eth
I believe that incentivising positive interactions and behaviours on social platforms is offering us a glimpse of what the internet should be, could be, will be. The era of profiting from hate is coming to an end.
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William Allen
@williamallen.eth
Behance is and has been one of the largest communities for visual artists (as you know!) - and we worked hard to cultivate a culture of appreciating vs competing. It worked.
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Nate Abbott
@nate
Solving spam was critical for the longevity of email (and you could argue that google did the same for the web). Wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t open architecture that allowed for competition in the client (and public evolution of the protocol, eg DKIM).
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@benersing
@perl Web3 Evolution
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Sterling
@sterling
Yeah that type of thinking assumes we have no agency in this. Nihilistic. Boring. We can build things to weed out the toxicity.
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@ted
+1. been thinking about how FC’s architecture draws on the positive aspects of culture, turns them to our collective advantage, and leaves behind the negative aspects as we build together. excited to think of FC as a critical vehicle for wider cultural change. the earliest evidence is FC’s cultural evolution from
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@bissell
The biggest difference imo is that with networks like the web and email, you engage with content/communities you deliberately searched out. It’s the difference between: Users saying “hey computer, I want to see X.” versus Computers (algo recommenders, etc) saying “hey user, you want to see X.”
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@mikeyp
I love this and I feel the promise of FC is the ability to opt out/in to scaled and subcultures with more control ease. I also believe culture is set by first movers, and the folks who started the internet believed in principles and decorum that thankfully persist today. Grateful FC started this way too.
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