@mamund

Twitter “…invites social creatures like us to build social norms and expectations over the public commons and specific affordances that Twitter created” Mar 2009

Like the Krell did before they turned off the lights and went to sleep, long ago on Altair IV.

#ForbiddenPlanet #socialsoftware #UX

@mamund 🧵Social Software Affordances

Explaining Twitter in 2009 was *much* more fun

"It is a sense of place, not space, which makes it appropriate to dance at a Grateful Dead concert, but not at a Cambridge college high table; to be naked in the bedroom, but not in the street; and to sit at our windows, peering out, rather than at other people's windows, peering in. Place, not space, frames appropriate behaviour."

https://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog1014
#affordances #socialsoftware #UX

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Snapshot of 2003 #socialsoftware, one of MacManus’s excellent year-by-year overviews of #internethistory also see his book.
https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/115769431493954388

Friendica is a self-hosted social platform that's simple to use and a solid alternative to Facebook. Its privacy-friendly, decentralized design lets you connect safely while maintaining control over your online presence.

#Friendica #SelfHosted #SocialMedia #Fediverse #PrivacyFriendly #OpenSource #SocialNetworking #AlternativeToFacebook #Decentralized #TechCommunity #DigitalFreedom #OnlinePrivacy #SocialSoftware #EasyToUse #MastodonAlternative #Web3Social #CommunityDriven #InternetFreedom

Mastodon-like software is easier
33.3%
Friendica's UI is too complicated
11.1%
Yes, it's easy to use; an alternative to FB
0%
What is Friendica?
55.6%
Poll ended at .

LibraryThing has been going strong since 2005. I interviewed its founder and lead developer, Tim Spalding, back in 2008. Listening to that interview again today reminded me that everything I loved about LibraryThing remains important and matters even more now.

https://blog.jonudell.net/2023/12/25/critical-mass-in-the-goldilocks-zone/

#books #socialsoftware #criticalmass #librarything

Critical mass in the Goldilocks zone

The use of the phrase “critical mass” in this NYTimes story about the enshittification of Goodreads stopped me in my tracks. Give all of Goodreads’s issues, it might seem easy eno…

Jon Udell
Are Online Dating Apps Still a Wasteland? We Reviewed 13.

From Christian Mingle and eHarmony to Feeld and CougarD, there's probably an ill-conceived, glitchy dating app out there made just for you!

Jezebel

Soft networks — what if, instead of building for scale, we built for connection?

What if you just built software for someone you care for?

Reimagining social software through exploratory design.

soft networks with Bhavik Singh (via New Public / Digital Playground) https://youtu.be/Q2Dg2mp8Yho

#NewPublic #SoftNetworks #SocialSoftware #ExploratoryDesign #ExploratoryDevelopment

Digital Playground: soft networks with Bhavik Singh

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Lawrence Lessig