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Such spaces will never scale if there's widespread legal prohibitions. It is foolish to assume we can innovate our way around the law as opposed to talking wit
by rockskon 3mo ago
Such spaces will never scale if there's widespread legal prohibitions.
It is foolish to assume we can innovate our way around the law as opposed to talking with lawmakers to oppose the law before it gets on the books.
- fyredge 3mo agoAnd they absolutely should not scale. Scaling is the root cause of all social media ills. If all you see are the 100 people nearest to you, the village idiot will not be able to spread his gospel so easily
- rockskon 3mo agoThe social media you don't want will continue to scale.
- fyredge 3mo agoRight, and therefore we regulate them
- rockskon 3mo agoAnd what sort of regulations did you have in mind that don't primarily punish the users?
- fyredge 3mo agoOnes that prevent the scaling itself: No algorithmic recommendation. No mixing between known users (friends, followers etc.), recommended users (swipe feed) and advertised content. No publication of user content. It's social media, not global media. I posit that these points will be enough to curtail most of social media ills. Don't allow recommendation of slop and there will be a similar reduction in production. There will still be the village idiot that shares slop content, but their reach is limited since they have to actively persuade people to their message, rather than be recommended for being psychologically stimulating.