2/ To start, consider Simon's design principle as a useful heuristic / framing. No network that sells attention can durably satisfy it. The pressure to maximize attention for repackaging and resale inevitably leads to affective hijacking.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1151314581765029889 …
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4/ Discovering new people who share your interests and passions -- especially if they know some things you don't -- is an absolute joy. Go to conferences now, and you hear, "oh yea, I know you from twitter!"
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5/ The tricky part is "I know" means more than your work -- it means your personality, slowly revealed and perceptually integrated. That does take time and attention. It's computer-mediated socializing, and socialization is expensive!
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6/ As an example, I feel like I know
@MaureenBug and consider her to be a friend based on our interactions on this website. But, I digi-met her because twitter started promoting likes to the main feed, and our likes kept colliding. I wouldn't have anticipated that!Show this thread -
7/ Revisiting OP,
@balajis asked for a more "productive" network. That demands you can properly articulate your objective function. And that's the thing NO network allows. Again, instead, they all have effectively the same one -- maximize engagement to resell attention.Show this thread -
8/ That's the part I would want to fix. I want to be able to plug and play and switch between whatever attention allocator I want or other people have built. (Note: your social graph is an implicit allocator that isn't portable.)
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9/ I want to build infrastructure around the idea that I don't know what would be best for you, and maybe -- even probably -- you don't either. We need endless and accessible experimentation! A dynamic and variegated ecosystem.
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(P.S. I've slowly been designing something that would work like that, but I'm not sure I'm in a position to take on twitter et al. I think I found a sneaky back door, but still. Until my next steps, consider this yet another moment of me trying to discover new like-minded folks.)
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I’m going to dweb camp to find people@who think so :)
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