Erin KissaneJun 9, 2023

The strangest thing to me about our social tools and networks is how super-limited their feature-sets and philosophies have been in human terms.

It feels like designing a house entirely around the best use of new light-switch technology. How can we reinvent the bathmat???

It's weird.

https://erinkissane.com/all-this-unmobilized-love

Show threadGreg WilsonJun 9, 2023
@kissane The second time I read https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Discussion+Book%3A+50+Great+Ways+to+Get+People+Talking-p-9781119049715 I counted - I'd only ever seen half a dozen of the 50 techniques mentioned implemented directly in software. We get Slack which is IRC which is Unix talk(1), each requiring two orders of more magnitude disk space to install, but devs keep leaving other ways for people to talk to each other in the freezer :-/
Show threadErin Kissane

@gvwilson It is SO WEIRD to me. Like we know this stuff offline, but put it on the internet and it's either a hyper-specialist Web Forum or a platform that is trying to do everything by doing almost nothing.

Dating apps are pretty much the sole exception, presumably because there's a lot of money lying on the ground there.

Jun 9, 2023 at 6:55pmWeb
Show threadHazel WeaklyJun 9, 2023

@kissane @gvwilson for some reason I had never seen the 50 techniques book. That's awesome.

But yeah, I've noticed this too. I think it might have something to do with monetization? Like we found *one* way to monetize things (ads and data) and ran it into the ground and absolutely refused to innovate on that and consequently refused to innovate on anything else like they're somehow related...??

It's bizarre. There might not be a correlation there, but it feels like there is, imo.