RoelDec 20, 2022
Tim Bray

By @joshtpm on “The Core Challenges of Social Media”: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-core-challenges-of-social-media/sharetoken/N7Uinf69mrn2

Out-take: “This is why ‘content moderation’ is always going to be done on the cheap. It’s built into the nature of the business model.”

Thought-provoking!

The Core Challenges of Social Media

I know we've been a bit Elon-centric here of late, but the latest developments should prompt us to look to some of the core challenges behind what we now call social media. The Musk saga is…

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Dec 19, 2022 at 2:03amWeb
Show threadRalston Elko Dec 19, 2022

@timbray @joshtpm

is it though?

Social media has really become some software doing the content curation part of the job editors used to do. This is part an parcel of both the behavior advertising model and the social media data mine that enabled it. 1/

Show threadsayrerDec 19, 2022

@timbray @joshtpm Not the best writing. I've been guilty of the offense, but writing the words "This is" almost always indicates sloppy thinking.

This article leads with "This is" in consecutive paragraphs.

Show threadJoshua MarshallDec 19, 2022
@sayrer @timbray perhaps you can educate me in how to be a writer
Show threadSimon BrookeDec 19, 2022
@timbray Surely the moral of the story is that capitalism cannot do social media? A voluntary, co-operative, civil-society approach to moderation works and scales; a capitalist one does not.