What are the useful functions of social media? Why are we trying to replace DataFarming with decentralised networks like the fediverse, ATmosphere and Nostr-space, rather than withdrawing from the medium altogether and doing something totally different? What do we want to get out of the time and resources we put into using decentralised social services, or running infrastructure to support them?
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These are the kinds of questions @smallcircles and others invite us to ask and consider, to create intentional practices of Social Experience design;
https://discuss.coding.social/t/about-the-social-experience-design-category/27
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Commons-based social networking. Use the following paragraphs for a longer description, or to establish category guidelines or rules: Why should people use this category? What is it for? How exactly is this different than the other categories we already have? What should topics in this category generally contain? Do we need this category? Can we merge with another category, or subcategory?
Yes, these are major important questions you ask. And they are asked too rarely. In modern society we take for granted that tech innovations become available, and we just use them. The externalities is what we try to deal with later. Usually with more tech, and we increasingly to live in this weird technosphere where 'digital transformation' to participate.
Social experience design starts from personal perspective of *every* participant and motivates cocreation based on their needs.
@smallcircles @strypey a big issue that affects more than social media is what I call the fungibility of the digital domain. Some aspects of life are captured in digital form better than others, but once they do, its all just zeros and one. This is an unprecedented commingling of functionalities and power that is also responsible for the gigantism of adtech. It will become terminal once also the "economic graph" (who pays what to whom) becomes part of it. Thats not yet a complete process.
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@smallcircles @strypey back to the more narrow "social media" issue, this perspective leads to asking how many functions are now all forced on the same social graph design: getting interest based information from specialized publisher "nodes" (journos, scientists, politicians, artists, etc. gossiping, cracking jokes, communicating and establishing relations with other "undifferentiated" nodes, being pushed ads by commercial nodes etc.
In real life these channels are all distinct
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