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Social media platforms: what's wrong, and what's next
Table of contents: - INTRO: Social media platforms: what’s wrong, and what’s next (this post!) - Part 1: Problems with the platforms themselves - Part 2: Problems with the community aspect of social media platforms - Part 3: Problems with the content of social media platforms - Part 4: Problems with the users of social media platforms - Part 5: Problems with moderators / curators of social media platforms 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.
Now, if the above sentence just sent shivers down your spine as a relic of a bygone era of entrepreneurship ( So Mo Lo was parodied over 11 years ago on Silicon Valley), let me tell you why I think it’s still a good idea today. I think social media platforms as they exist currently aren’t serving people correctly, because they are incentivized in the wrong ways: I’ll probably get a lot of things wrong along the way, but hopefully it will spur someone out there to implement and solve at least some of these issues.
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