social

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

good question. i think online social is one of the most powerful innovations we've come up with but is currently causing more harm than good. partly because the incentives of online social as we know it are misaligned and partly because we don't know how to deal with all the information we're consuming all the time

i'm trying to reconcile the potential for good that online social has, and similar to what you alluded to earlier, i think a lot of it lies in the networking part more than the platform/content part. the way that you foster the networking component is by listening and having conversations with people who are willing to listen

like counts and character limits don't feature in this vision. that's why irl meetups are the ideal fit, but critically they are limited to being in the same physical location as the people you would like to connect with

group chats and video calls are the online alternative but aren't great for discoverability

kinda feels like there's a middleground between the public feed and the private group chat that is underexplored. trying to imagine what that looks like

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