Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
A lot of the work in building Sublime has been, what do I want from the web? And personally, I want to follow my curiosity wherever it leads . Without sifting through mountains of clickbait and SEO and content designed to feed an algorithm, I want to mindfully collect the pieces of the internet that resonate with me. And I want to do this in a spac... See more
Josh Kramer • 0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ a Platform With No Likes, No Follower Count, and No Comments
When I asked about their views on content moderation, the founders said that, because readers opt in to newsletters—unlike Facebook, there’s no algorithm-based feed—they have relatively less responsibility to get involved
cjr.org • The Substackerati
In contrast to Google and Apple, Facebook doesn’t own an operating system and, thus, doesn’t enjoy the defensibility of a pre-installed default. But because Facebook is the de-facto online identity layer for so many people, it is almost guaranteed to secure some of that limited pixel real estate on the user’s home screen.
Julian Lehr • The Power of Defaults
“This moves us very quickly towards a world in which the Internet shows us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.”
David Mannheim • The Person in Personalisation: The Story Of How Marketing's Most Treasured Possession Became Anything but Personal
We need to make a case where even private companies have a sphere of public obligation and public interest. Right now social media doesn’t have that, and that is a glaring weakness because it has such an effect on democracy. Beyond that, we have to call for true public forums like PBS, but I think a better case can be made for those if they’re seen... See more
ro khanna • Ro Khanna makes the case for digital public space
Now Google, Microsoft, Facebook, all mean well. They want to help us. The filters-at-source are there to personalise service to us, to make things simple and convenient for us. The risks that Pariser and Zittrain speak of are, to an extent, unintended consequences of well-meaning design.
JP Rangaswami • On firehoses and filters: Part 1
users may say they want a chronological feed, but their revealed preference is the opposite.
stratechery.com • Threads and the Social/Communications Map
Using pseudonyms online, in social media, and crypto transactions. If the governments’ databases get hacked, all our private online information could be made public. It will become less common to have your real name publicly online. You can still build up a reputation with a pseudonym. But your physical person can’t be canceled or damaged