Ignis 小火龙Dec 12, 2022

CC: @smallcircles

> People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
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> Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.
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> By Ian Bogost

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/fix-facebook-making-it-more-like-google/620456/

This one is also very interesting: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/

#RunYourOwnSocial #PeopleVerse

Fix Facebook by Making It More Like Google+

Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.

The Atlantic
Show threadIgnis 小火龙Dec 11, 2022

Oh right, how could I forget.

Feuds mean less when the instances are small (<Dunbar). That was what I was working towards all this time. Doh!

Related: https://runyourown.social/

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How to run a small social network site for your friends

This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.