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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my point was more that maybe taking this skeuomorphic approach where you try to recreate IRL in the virtual is not fruitful and it's better to just lean into the much more chaotic cybernetic virtual reality of unfathomable large network structures

and then barbell that with deep embodied offline relationships

vs trying to recreate the later in the former

is your idea something along the lines of imposing some meatspace-inspired restrictions like limiting the number of people you can follow?

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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Idk if moving is the right term. It’s more like those are the last real social apps standing

social is largely moving to messaging apps/group chats though?

Yes content platforms milk the life and time out of creators and consumers for max profit and social are to connect people

content platforms are the likes of TT and YT, social media: X, FB, whatsapp, Farcaster etc

the way this is so right, no one really cares anymore though 😅