Social networks
Notes
- Social media networks will become ever more addictive, and by using AI to increase the click-through rate on the ads, they will squeeze ever more money out of their addicts. AI will be essential to the "capture and sale of attention," as Tim Wu puts it, walking users from curiosity to the cash register more and more efficiently.
- Capitalism is an accelerant for addictive behavior, and we are only just realizing how unhappy people become as a result of the marketplaceβs newest and most insidious products. What's worse, the necessary functions performed by our phones and the Internet are fatefully tangled with the apps that addict us. They put the heroin next to the tap water.
- Generally you'd lose contact with all these people over time as you mature and just naturally drift apart. No shame in that, the ones you do want to keep in touch with you'd make a real effort for. Now it's so easy to just send a "like" , "congratulations!" or "Happy birthday!" that you find yourself very loosely connected to a bunch of people you don't want to be but feel like everyone else is still in "contact" so you don't want to miss out.
- When you realize that Instagram is someones curated life, you realize how manufactured their profile actually is. What you see is what they want you to see.
Links
- βtilde.club - Not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer that people respectfully use together in their shared quest to build awesome web pages.
- βPleroma - Free, federated social networking server built on open protocols. (Article) (HN) (Lobsters) (Deploy a Pleroma Server)
- βBridgy - Connects your web site to social media. Likes, retweets, mentions, cross-posting, and more.
- βMedia Manipulation Casebook - Digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns.
- βLinkedInβs Alternate Universe (2020) - How the professional platform makes networking weird. (HN)
- βOrbit Model - Framework for building high gravity communities. A high gravity community is one that excels at attracting and retaining members by providing an outstanding member experience. (Why Orbit is Better Than Funnel for Developer Relations)
- βFeoBlog - Distributed blogging platform. It takes a lot of its inspiration from Mastodon and Scuttlebutt.
- βOsintgram - OSINT tool on Instagram. Offers an interactive shell to perform analysis on Instagram account of any users by its nickname.
- βThe Ponzi Career (2021) - Future of work is a pyramid scheme, where every person sells his favorite person to the next person. (HN)
- βPolywork - Professional network that represents all the wonderful things you actually do as a professional.
- βEagleEye - Stalk your Friends. Find their Instagram, FB and Twitter Profiles using Image Recognition and Reverse Image Search.
- βBombshell (2021) - Instagram's suicide farm, media distortion, and navigating three weeks of Facebook hysteria. (Tweet)
- βFast Facebook Activity Deletion - Clean up a Facebook account without deleting the entire account.
- βDito - Design your post once then apply the same design for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest in one click.
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