Every founder has been there: staring at a list of potential ideas, wondering which one is worth years of your life. Pick wrong, and you risk endless pivots, wasted capital, and burnout. Pick right, and it feels like the wind…
Core Tenets: Tenant #6: A centralized platform Federation has a lot of merits to it – and whether you believe in the AT Protocol by BlueSky or the ActivityPub protocol, both have noble goals in trying to decentralize a user’s content from…
Core Tenets: Tenant #5: AI acts as a helper, NEVER as a creator On any new social media platform, you should never wonder if something was primarily created by a human or an AI. Similarly, you should never wonder if you are…
Core Tenets: Tenant #4: It’s all attribute tags In order to give sherpas as much power in creating filters as they can, we need to allow sherpas the most flexibility to sort/filter/do ranking based on the content on the platform. To that…
Core Tenets: Tenant #3: There are no community moderators, only sherpas In a nutshell, you can consider a sherpa as someone who creates filters for consuming content on the a social media platform. Consider the following: Each of the sherpas…
Core Tenets: Tenant #2: There is no “one” algorithm Social media algorithms are under intense scrutiny – as mentioned in part one of the “Problems” social media series, people are becoming more skeptical that a sufficiently complicated algorithm that ranks…
In my last post, I laid out a list of core tenets for what the social media platform of tomorrow could look like. Here they are again, for reference: Core Tenets: So, let’s start breaking these down, one by one,…
Table of contents: Problems with moderators / curators of social media platforms: One final category of issues I have with social media platforms (but one of the most important ones in my mind) revolves around community moderation, which is mainly…
Table of contents: Problems with the users of social media platforms Some of the content below has been mentioned in other sections, but I think it’s worth it to outline what I see are the biggest issues with the consuming…
Table of contents: Problems with the content of social media platforms: Memes / controversial / taboo topics will always win, unless moderated Memes are easy to create, easy to distribute, easy to read and understand, and easy to upvote /…
