Some day we'll wake up and realize "social media" is a skin for a less feature-rich version of email & Usenethttps://twitter.com/peidran/status/921851425679798272 …
Problems of spam and harassment are much more tractable if someone is in charge; it’s easier to build good UI if messages are more uniform in length and structure; easier to do ID if you have some idea of participants’ goals.
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Being able to observe behavior across an entire network and create affordances or constraints to shape that behavior is a huge thing to give up in a distributed or decentralized net.
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To partly answer my own question, I think Facebook only started getting serious about qualitative research in the last five years. I don’t know how much voice they have on non-safety issues.
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