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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Chris Dixon
@cdixon.eth
Yeah I think email (unlike www) has gotten dangerously re-centralized. Yet all the creators are flocking there (newsletters etc) as it’s still the closest thing we have to an open push protocol (web is pull).
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Tap Stephenson
@pts
Push might be a problem at the primitive level though (email, SMS, phone all have spam issues) Maybe the only way to get a permissionless push protocol is to build opt-in ability at the protocol level (probably something to learn from RSS here)
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Chris Dixon
@cdixon.eth
Yes, why RSS didn’t win over closed systems is an interesting / important question imo. And it’s something that’s still fixable I think with the right (open) systems.
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