there've been a lot of attempts to launch social networks that place the Overton window in a different place on the L/R axis (gab, parler, etc.) I think we need one that places the window differently on the politics vs no politics window just an entire network that rejects >
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7/ part of the problem w social media is that compulsion is not the same as happiness is not the same as contentment is not the same as joy I (we ?) click click click at all the horrors, looking for the dopamine payoff. What we are driven to do is not the same as what we like
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Wouldn't the 10k year network be a very contentious community with a large faction wanting to talk about hunter-gatherers, terrain maps and locations of the ice age, etc. and another group talking Atlantis and Antediluvian civilizations and the like, despising one another?
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This would be an improvement over current Twitter!
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A Twitter-like network that mimicked old forums would probably do the trick. I think one of the weaknesses of forums was that the structure really restricted conversation to the OP and it was hard to branch off. Twitter's structure might actually be okay with that idea.
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Maybe even the old Usenet idea, where you join a community, then post within there and people can browse the communities they're a part of.
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I can't tell how much of this is serious and how much is shitpost (although, what's the difference anyway) but this is mostly the problem that's been animating me for... ... a while.
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Like, part of the logic of this post was me just validating some of my prior ideas but also just continuing thoughts on content shaping. If you really want to shape your feed, you need the second degree inferences which is too hard to do on twitters APIhttps://generativist.substack.com/p/dunbars-number-is-quadratic …
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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