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Mail breaks down as soon as everyone starts broadcasting to everyone else. Also the reason why ppl behind mail and chat never saw social media coming. Social m

by gsatic 3y ago

Mail breaks down as soon as everyone starts broadcasting to everyone else. Also the reason why ppl behind mail and chat never saw social media coming. Social media can't work on top of those protocols so they thought it would fail. Nor did anyone imagine that everyone has such a desperate craving for Attention or this Need to broadcast their thoughts to the entire planet every day. Its still not clear why this even has any value. Its sort of like trying to build a brain where every neuron has broadcast capability to every other neurons. Our brains would just fry if such capability existed. There would be so much noise nothing would make sense. But ppl have decided this is what they need to build to escape Google and Facebook or whoever. And the whole story doesn't really make too much sense.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
>Its still not clear why this even has any value. It's simply human nature. The scale simply increased from a family ornfriend group, to community, to a world population. Media reflects reality in this case.
codersfocus 3y ago
I don't think you really understand social media if you think everybody talks to everybody. Building an audience is a job for many people. It takes work to have your message be heard.
- gsatic 3y ago
  Ppl are not thinking to deeply abt what problem is being solved. They are just reacting. Telling everyone to build and grow audience is very nice, until you realize (1) the Total Available Eyeballs are not growing. So new problems are being caused by this unescapable fact, as ppl try harder and harder for less and less (2) lot of ppl who deserve attention just get drowned out. If you ask the decentralizing crowd what should be done about it or whether their work is going to make a diff they haven't thought about it. What's the use of designing essentially decentralised broadcast to replace centraliazed social media broadcasts without thinking about the limited eyeballs/info overload problem?

by gsatic 3y ago

johnnyanmac 3y ago

>Its still not clear why this even has any value. It's simply human nature. The scale simply increased from a family ornfriend group, to community, to a world population. Media reflects reality in this case.

codersfocus 3y ago

I don't think you really understand social media if you think everybody talks to everybody. Building an audience is a job for many people. It takes work to have your message be heard.

gsatic 3y ago
Ppl are not thinking to deeply abt what problem is being solved. They are just reacting. Telling everyone to build and grow audience is very nice, until you realize (1) the Total Available Eyeballs are not growing. So new problems are being caused by this unescapable fact, as ppl try harder and harder for less and less (2) lot of ppl who deserve attention just get drowned out. If you ask the decentralizing crowd what should be done about it or whether their work is going to make a diff they haven't thought about it. What's the use of designing essentially decentralised broadcast to replace centraliazed social media broadcasts without thinking about the limited eyeballs/info overload problem?