Kyle Mathews
@kam
New blog post! "A Social Protocols OS" — I've been connecting a lot of long-running threads in my head recently around organizations, collaboration, open source, and more recently, protocols, inspired by the Summer of Protocols that's spinning up soon. https://bricolage.io/a-social-protocols-os/
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Ike
@iw
Meetup.com was (is) a place I sort made some friends that lasted as long as the shared interest in the group did. When I got to the SF Bay Area I got into a great hiking group but when the leadership bailed the group fell apart. Meetup is a synthetic, institutional, digital, and ultimately weak protocol for socialing.
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
Yeah meetup is fine but it only occupied a few points on a vast spectrum of possibilities. Big missed opportunity imo
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Matthew
@matthew
can you expand on this? curious what you think they could've done better!
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
Did you read my original post? I don't think they did anything wrong per we just that there's many more social forms possible that they could have supported
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Boris Mann
@boris
They absolutely did a lot wrong. I hate Meetup because … it was a centralized model that trapped organizers into paying or lose everything. A Discord like model where members helped pay is one tiny example of what they could do better.
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
Haha ok I didn't ever run a group so wasn't fully aware of this but yeah, this is pretty shady. I'm also mad at them cause they were on Gatsby and didn't sign an enterprise contract 😂
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