Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
"...how might you design a social media experience that highlights persistence?" Good question. Would love to hear more ideas. I know I've unintentionally dropped the ball on convos here at times (both publicly and in DCs), since I sometimes find it difficult to track the threads that interest me enough to return to later.
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Camila 🫂
@camilags
I think it is a symptom of our times that people are not persistent/consistent. I was talking to @y0b yesterday about some nuances of it. People don’t watch videos that are longer than 30s and don’t listen to music that is longer than 2 minutes. Same goes with long texts. This generate a lot of anxiety. Even here on warpcast, people usually only comment on superficial casts. If they have to think and reflect, they usually don’t interact. It is not everyone for sure. But most of the people. Maybe the reward system based on quantity of interactions instead of quality of interactions also contribute to this.
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y0b
@y0b
Quite a few reward systems start by identifying examples of quality contributions, picking something they have in common as a proxy indicator or quality. They start using that metric to reward content. The very existence of the reward causes people to try and create content that fulfills those metrics. Their main goal is to get a reward, NOT to produce quality content. It makes sense to milk rewards as "efficient" as possible. Quantity and speed over quality. The system is not rewarding quality anymore, just rewarding "farmers". Rinse and repeat.
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