Most effective link-push modes historically:
1997-2001: Email lists
2002-2010: RSS and search
2011-2014: Twitter and Facebok
2015-2018: Email lists again
2019 - ... feels like change is in the air yet again, but unclear how.
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Agree with this. Network topology is changing. Unclear exactly how. Far more subterranean groups now (slack, discord, even FB etc) that have meaningful scale.
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There's a further wrinkle in that. Aggregator communities (slashdot, hacker news, metafilter, reddit...) were quite important for me early on, but now somehow they seem like sideshows, with a new kind of subterranean structure emerging
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Agreed. One thing Twitter did spectacularly was enable a view of "who" is reading your links. There's no good analytics tool that does any kind of CRM modeling to better ensure you're reaching the right kinds of people independent of pageviews.
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Also - I think comments play a key role here. Feels like we're on the cusp of a new kind of comments platform for the web. Not sure how or where it'll come from though
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Reality overlays are just getting started
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This looks like a regular site to me not an overlay. The browser extension just stores comments to the dissenter site and retrieves from there?
The browser extension allows you to view comments as you are visiting any web link.
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Similar design patterns existed 10y ago, they never quite worked at an interesting scale 🙂
To be an interesting evolution, the comment and social graph data would need to be decentralized like on a blockchain or something. Otherwise it’s just a convenient ux at best.
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Didn’t realize until now you had never heard of it. Remind me to be more careful in assuming a shared map. Kinda ironic... 😅
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