The idea of a "spam folder" for social media harassment doesn't really make sense. An email is a private communication. But social media is public. If someone t

The idea of a "spam folder" for social media harassment doesn't really make sense. An email is a private communication. But social media is public. If someone throws a hot take at you on social media, not only is it not private, it is about as public as it can get. Something about this degree of forced intimacy feels very unnatural; maybe because it is -- it's to some extent engagement hacking meant to juice ad dollars. So I appreciate the desire to try and encourage more intimate, tightly woven spaces over faceless sprawl. Unfortunately, the problem with rejecting the world and retreating into the woods is that you forfeit the commons. And that is the issue here. We won't solve the myriad issues of the public commons this way. What is needed is frankly a more ambitious and systematic solution, one that addresses the effective and perverse incentive structure for producing and selling conspiracy theories, tailor made to every tribe.