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Towards Small-Scale Social

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Social environments on the internet provide a bountiful — and sometimes incongruous — bundle: conversation, riffing, jokes and shitposts, entertainment, learning, distraction, inspiration, meeting interesting people. It's a beautiful bundle, to be sure! It's also fragile, and chaotic, and becoming increasingly clear that no platform can sustainably deliver all that we need. And the priorities of the biggest social media platforms are very different from the parts that actually benefit our lives. Maybe it always has been, but the present vibes feel particularly precarious. This is destabilizing, but also primes us for what comes next. Twitter clones abound; fragmentation is expected; love and hate relationships are the norm. We think we want better chat, better blogs, better Twitter, better Discord…but it's hard to articulate what this means. When we think about these platforms at their best: they're about connection, meaning, friends, sparks of delight and provocations and resonance. T

Towards Small-Scale Social hyperlink app all notes about Towards Small-Scale Social Brendan | 2024-01-05 essays ※ ※ ※ What do we want from our online social spaces? ※ ※ ※ What do we need, and what do we only reach for out of habit? What exhausts, and what nourishes? Social environments on the internet provide a bountiful — and sometimes incongruous — bundle: conversation, riffing, jokes and shitposts, entertainment, learning, distraction, inspiration, meeting interesting people. It's a beautiful bundle, to be sure! It's also fragile, and chaotic, and becoming increasingly clear that no platfor

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