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There are those who believe the social web is reaching its terminal point. I hope they’re right. Platform after platform was designed to make it easier and more addictive for us to share content with one another so the corporations behind them could sell ever more of our attention and data. In different ways, most of these platforms

New York Times • Opinion | the Great Delusion Behind Twitter - The New York Times

Kelly’s vision depends on an evolution of the Internet in which the vast tangle of possible one-on-one connections partition into countless small cliques—each one a fandom or a mini community revelling in the discovery of others who share their quirks. Instead, the social-media giants effectively rerouted these connections through a small number of... See more

Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class

The Rise and Fall of Yik Yak, the Anonymous Messaging App (Published 2017)

New York Times nytimes.com

For a person such as Hannah, it's far more valuable to get a few thousand people to pay her $4.99 directly than to have a shared model where she merely gets a few cents per thousand views.

It's far more valuable to 'get picked', but it's also much, much harder.

But this is the reality of the 'young creators' today. They are not talking about a Spotif... See more

Forget Spotify for News. Let's Fix the Real Problem

Frank Chimero · the Good Room

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Social media’s combination of global reach,

performance metrics, platform design, content

format, and algorithmic interference have changed

how creators make for others, and how others

perceive and interact with creators' work.

The results are an eternal presence, persistent

feedback, an unrealistic expectation of virality,

harmful social comparison, crea

Matt Klein • Page Not Found

- Community platforms

Cayetana Hurtado • The subtle art of (not) understanding Gen Z

It’s Time to Dismantle the Technopoly

Cal Newport newyorker.com

Ideas from George Mack:

1. Subprime audience - A creator optimising for size of audience and ending up with a junk audience. They end up producing content they themselves wouldn’t consume.

2. The forgetting paradox - Wordle outperformed every headline in society's consciousness for 2022. All the news everyone was worried outlasted by a novelty game..