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Social media is like horseless carriage. A bad extension of an absent reference. It’s not a personalized/customized long-tail extension of broadcast media. It’s not a 7-billion channel universe. I think those mental models have become severely limiting.
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It is no longer clear to me why the hell we’re all connecting up randomly and indiscriminately simply because we can. Even among people with pragmatic reasons to broadcast/control a distribution channel it is now getting absurd.
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The marginal value of another random twitter follower or LinkedIn/FB connection is probably negative now unless you’re an industrial scale mainstream culture producer like a pop music star
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And it is unclear that the 1:1 connection is the right abstraction for programming out social graph presence. It’s assembly language for sociability and I don’t want to be there anymore. I want C or Java level leveraged programmability.
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Why can’t I declare some interests and filter criteria and then have an auto-generated script go wire up the follows for me and generate the stream? Why are we stuck with manual lists as state of art?
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Meh no. Just a problem to be solved. Not a show-stopping concern. Open API with red and blue algorithms for eg. People already do that with block lists.
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Sure. That’s kinda what the [[jewish name]] plugin tried to do. Given a reasonably liberal API I can think of ways to Trojan horse any ideological filter in. Which I think is a) good for pluralism b) already happening c) inevitable one way or the other
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