Stephan
@stephancill
There is an important distinction to be made between social media and content platforms. Over time the lines have gotten blurred - maybe time for social to make a comeback?
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Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
has been something I've dreamed of for a long time but recently have been feeling cynical about it — seems like there is something fundamental about the virtual that favors the global over local I'd love to be proven wrong and it's likely worth swimming upstream even if this is true but also open to the idea of just leaning into this in my own life and admitting that my virtual world does offer the same social fabric as my meatspace trying to build analog of our embodied lives in virtual world might not be the way tho
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
deo it’s the financial incentives not the people that are the problem you CAN build highly engaging, hyperlocal social connection facilitators in virtual spaces (early AIM was this), but you can’t maximize revenue via ads for venture backed software this way… so all the best makers of things instead make the thing the system shuffles them towards
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llamafacts
@llamafacts.eth
WhatsApp is used as a true social platform in most countries. You mostly add people you’ve met in real life or plan to interact with. There are very localized chat groups for relevant communities — your building, your child’s school parent group, your yoga/pilates group, etc. For some reason, the U.S. lacks this.
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GIGAMΞSH
@gigamesh
I feel like instagram is doing a pretty good job of providing both local & global via stories & reels. Just wish it was a decentralized network. 🙂
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Stephan
@stephancill
is your idea something along the lines of imposing some meatspace-inspired restrictions like limiting the number of people you can follow?
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