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In a presentation first given in 2019, Balaji described the potential for a pseudonymous economy – populated by persistent, non-real names that can accrue reputation, or as he terms it, “social wealth.” Fundamentally, he argues that pseudonymity will give individuals the ability to protect their social wealth, which is today vulnerable to canceling... See more
Sarah Guo • When we design our identities from scratch
Elinor Ostrom,
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Facebook was the arbiter of importance and was unabashedly social. Its prescriptions were based on the preference for personally relevant material over material with global relevance.
Jill Abramson • Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
Reduce the visibility of resharing debunked or low-legitimacy content, and those that reshare it. If your crazy uncle wants to keep posting verifiably false conspiracy theories, they shouldn't be algorithmically amplified and his followers should have to visit his account to see them. This lets social network maintain a degree of free speech withou... See more
Josh Constine • Why civility on Facebook ended with .edu
We filter by ourselves: We
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
When I say “I don’t know where everyone went,” I know everyone’s out there surfing the web , of course, but it feels like it’s a different place now. When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet. The “For You” pages of the world are right, I am interested in that content, but I’m not seeing ... See more
I miss human curation
Joe examines many problems with the internet giants of today (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Netflix) and how they take advantage of the individuals who use their platforms, stating, “By addicting us to their systems they keep us sellable.” He continues to describe the misalignment of incentives which has resulted in humans becoming the product as... See more
Joseph Lubin • Blockchain Explained: How Web 3.0 Will Create New Business Models
Netflix pioneered the filtering of culture through recommendation engines.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
In a 2014 post on a blog run by Microsoft Research, a scholar named Christian Sandvig coined the term “corrupt personalization” to describe such flawed recommendations as the manipulative Netflix movie thumbnails and homogenous Spotify playlists. “Corrupt personalization is the process by which your attention is drawn to interests that are not your
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