Table of contents: Problems with the community aspect of social media platforms: 1. Content and grouping is often disorganized When I watch a TV show, I often try to see if I can read what other people are thinking of…
Table of contents: Problems with the platforms themselves: 1. The metrics used by social media platforms DO NOT align with the metrics that create a good social user experience Social media platforms heavily rely on metrics such as Daily Active…
Table of contents: Introduction: WANTED: Somebody to go back in time with me (when suggesting to build a social media platform was ok). This is not a joke. Email [email protected]. You’ll get paid when we get acquired. Must bring your…
The age of AI is among us, and everyone is rushing to build new systems that will allow one person to act like twenty. The allure is clear: The time savings on solving any of these problems would be massive,…
If you’ve used the internet at any point in your life (how are you reading this otherwise?), you’ve likely come across someone who harasses, spams, or just in general bothers you. And when this happens, whether it’s a spam email…
Documentation and how it rots If you’ve ever had to manage documentation in a large codebase, you know how quickly it “rots”. Who takes the time to ensure the README.md still makes sense 6 months into a project, whether your…
Humans are social and curious creatures — and so it is no surprise that when we browse the web, we are drawn to places like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Discord, TikTok, internet forums, and more (Threads?). Joining these communities is a…
One of the coolest features of git, and code hosting services in general (e.g. Github, Bitbucket, etc) is the concept of forking a repository of code. The idea is that you can go to a project that is open source…
On platforms like Reddit, users are free to create their own “subreddit” communities around a location, topic, idea, really anything (e.g. reddit.com/r/michigan, reddit.com/r/pics, etc), and as long as the community name in question is not taken, they can “claim” it.…
Wherever we have forums or communities, we have moderators. It seems a fact as old as the internet itself — whether you are on an old phpBB forum, a Subreddit, a Discord server, Hacker News, etc, moderators are the curators…
