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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Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
i would agree that you can but my hypothesis is they’ll always be fairly niche IRL versions of these communities where you are in the presence of living breathing humans are just superior whereas the internet shines at scale
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Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
the internet has been around long enough that if there was something sticky here we would have things stuck
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Stephan
@stephancill
i think a big realization here is that not everyone who is passively consuming content for entertainment is seeking conversation/connection - the number of people that are looking for that may actually be relatively small
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I mostly agree with that and believe that a v useful definition of the internet is it’s ultimately just a niche-matching algorithm but, for many niches/subcultures the living breathing version was hardly possible pre-internet so it shaped those into existing in the first place (only then to perhaps get supplanted after the initial coordination problem was solved)
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