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Social media is mainstream. This is a place to discuss social media's design and impact. /social is the place for the intelligent and globally informed conversation about social media we've always been looking for.

Zinger

@zinger

I don't understand why all crypto people always want to exchange Telegrams when you meet IRL. It's just like exchanging numbers: creates a dead end. Much better to connect on Farcaster, Twitter, even LinkedIn, so that at least there's some passive social context to further develop the relationship. Otherwise you have to remember who the person is based on their name, force a conversation to keep in touch, etc. Passive social context is powerful. There's a reason that people ask for Instagrams and Snapchats in both romantic and friend contexts instead of numbers these days. Side note: I still don't understand how you can work in crypto and not be on Farcaster. Feels like one of the highest leverage things you can do to continue to build your network in the industry and perhaps more importantly actually try and use new onchain (mini) apps.

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john

@know

Great piece, not really about the end of social media, but instead speaking about the current downfalls and potential future differences. https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/

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Stephan

@stephancill

So many lessons for social networks in this video. Two key takeaways: Preferential attachment can help us understand how to avoid erosion of client diversity and build censorship resistant systems Participants (including platforms themselves) in social networks face a prisoner’s dilemma where the difference between everyone cooperating and defecting is basically up to the network configuration and once one “wins” there’s no going back. I think this is what we’ve seen happen if you consider defecting to be the adoption of the algo feeds we have today https://youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA

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Ohnahji🎓

@ohnahji

WE WENT IN TODAY!!! LETS GOOOOO. 🏆

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Ohnahji🎓

@ohnahji

LIVE ON TWITCH!! 🟢

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Zinger

@zinger

Agreed, cameos are a gamechanger imo Personalized, remixable videos are super cool

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0xLuo

@0xluo.eth

Ok, this is pretty much what I expected. The rumored OpenAI social network turns out to be the Sora app, which lets users easily create, share, and watch videos powered by AI. I once said it was "probably like an AIGC version of Instagram". Now it seems the focus is on video, so it’s closer to an AIGC version of TikTok. look at how @tryemerge’s image-generation templates spread so quickly on Farcaster, that’s the kind of rapid network effect Sora might unleash once social features are built in. Adding social interactions on top of the current Sora could enable stronger viral dynamics, sharing clips that quickly spread across networks, people imitating and remixing each other’s creations, and new cultural memes emerging at unprecedented speed. I’d be happy to see all of this happen.

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0xLuo

@0xluo.eth

Just tried out the new @xmtp-based app convos.org. It’s rare these days to see apps that truly care about privacy, carrying on the cypherpunk spirit. No phone numbers, no emails, no identity binding (everyone just shows up as "someone"), and you can "explode a convo to irrecoverably delete its messages and members". A radical take on privacy-first messaging. I’ll be keeping an eye on XMTP’s progress, not only experiments like this extreme privacy app, but also its push toward broader applications within @baseapp.base.eth.

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Zinger

@zinger

It’s actually pretty incredible that you can like a TikTok or Reel about a certain topic and then they’re able to recommend you more videos about that topic from their library of billions of videos *in the next scroll*

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Zinger

@zinger

New Instagram aspect ratio format is odd Feels like it breaks the hierarchy of the feed Wonder if there's a larger plan there re: Meta

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Stephan

@stephancill

love seeing apps experiment with different social form factors

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nicholas 🧨

@nicholas

audible is winning my social media time

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Stephan

@stephancill

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nicholas 🧨

@nicholas

all that exists in social media is what has been posted

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Stephan

@stephancill

ideas kinda mid but good to riff on

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