I semi-sincerely think that observing each other is the most important next step, turning the pre-programmed inter-connectivity of online sites into an intra-co

I semi-sincerely think that observing each other is the most important next step, turning the pre-programmed inter-connectivity of online sites into an intra-connectivity of what works for ourselves. > It's like everyone is so damn angry all the time. If they aren't angry they're bitter and resentful. And when they aren't angry or bitter, they're so depressed they're barely able to crawl out of bed. And if they aren't angry, bitter, or depressed, they have crippling anxiety. I don't see things quite so darkly, but I do see a lot of negative biases that predominate & spread (to diffuse some blame, cynicism is very often a simpler blunter more-accessible message than the complexity of hope in a complex world), I do see an attraction towards dislike & disbelief & negativity & reduction (which win through polarization), and I see a vanishing percent of views towards positivity, towards figuring out what's good (which is more difficult than polarization because it typically refines/selects). Overall, as a user, I want to be able to keep my own score. I want to track & identify user identifies (ideally across platforms) of who is positive/helpful/speculative and who is negative/destructive/limited in view. When I see things, the history of who is posting matters, and my history with their posts matters especially to me. So far that is a leap broadly untaken. Right now most social media systems don't have any real bias towards our preferences, from what I can see. If you're on HN or reddit or whatever else, if someone you've upvoted a thousand times post, their content wont show up any differently, from someone you've never seen, nor from someone you've downvoted a thousand times. The systems are all blind. And frankly I don't think the services should try to tune themselves. I think it's up to us users. That's the competency of the web, that which no other connected system of (imo gross vile) walled-silo apps has: malleability, changability. By being a web system, we users can & should be building our own systems of reinforcement & guidance, should be extending our agency outwards. To tune in to the positive OK voices, to see over time who consistently has good powerful positive things to say, and to dis-regard the voices we are tired & worn for hearing.