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How about none? Maybe we are seeing the beginning of society putting less value on anyone and everyone having a global public podium? If all social media publ

How about none? Maybe we are seeing the beginning of society putting less value on anyone and everyone having a global public podium? If all social media public content reverts to streams of ads, influencers, marketers, politicians, misinformation campaigns and every nutjob on the planet providing their "expert" commentary, then why bother? I can't see the signal of people I want to follow anymore with all that noise and I'm sure others see the same thing. Social media has regressed to being a tabloid paper that talks about UFO's, bigfoot and what celebrity is divorcing or whatever. Its complete nonsense and mostly fabricated. Any new platform setup with similar features is going to regress to the same.

NikolaNovak 4y ago
My experience may have been specific and circumstantial, but somehow, Google Plus for a while was some perfect utopian Star Trek ideal of what Social Network should be like. * Circles that were super easy to use and organize. All other social networks work hard to deter you from organizing and customizing your feed * Enormous amount of good content and easy curation and sharing. People would make Circles of e.g. "Really Good Photographers" or "Interesting Physicists", and then share those circles. So in the morning I could go "Hey I'd like to read a bit about interesting physics" and click my Physicists circle, and in the afternoon I could say "I want to see some pretty photos" and see various photographers. * It was good for customizing both content consumption as per above, but also content creation & sharing - I have a funny IT joke, I'll share it to my "Coworkers" and "Coding nerds" circles. I've done a really great wedding shoot this weekend, I'll share it to my "Photonerds" circle. etc. It was genuinely amazing and awesome and perfect, for me. Everything since has been actively moving away.

NikolaNovak 4y ago

My experience may have been specific and circumstantial, but somehow, Google Plus for a while was some perfect utopian Star Trek ideal of what Social Network should be like. * Circles that were super easy to use and organize. All other social networks work hard to deter you from organizing and customizing your feed * Enormous amount of good content and easy curation and sharing. People would make Circles of e.g. "Really Good Photographers" or "Interesting Physicists", and then share those circles. So in the morning I could go "Hey I'd like to read a bit about interesting physics" and click my Physicists circle, and in the afternoon I could say "I want to see some pretty photos" and see various photographers. * It was good for customizing both content consumption as per above, but also content creation & sharing - I have a funny IT joke, I'll share it to my "Coworkers" and "Coding nerds" circles. I've done a really great wedding shoot this weekend, I'll share it to my "Photonerds" circle. etc. It was genuinely amazing and awesome and perfect, for me. Everything since has been actively moving away.