Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…
I think decentralization is going to be the next thing that moves social media forward. Who will do that, i don’t know, but it feels like that’s the next great offering in the space.
My impression is that a honeymoon period is coming to a close and a consensus of disappointments and critiques is settling in. Where it goes in the short-medium term isn’t clear and there’s plenty of room for the “revolution” to fail.
I think many have been exposed to plenty of great ideas about the sort of things that are possible, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t quite take root right now. I suspect, unfortunately, on the whole, energies just aren’t being spent in the right ways. At some point the whole user experience needs to be accounted for.
If decentralized platforms don’t learn that user interface designers are desperately needed, decentralization is not going to succeed. There’s a reason that tech has a certain look and feel that emerged in the early 2000s and parts of it have stayed around. People often need a lot of hand-holding and information at their fingertips to accept a platform.
I think decentralization is going to be the next thing that moves social media forward. Who will do that, i don’t know, but it feels like that’s the next great offering in the space.
My impression is that a honeymoon period is coming to a close and a consensus of disappointments and critiques is settling in. Where it goes in the short-medium term isn’t clear and there’s plenty of room for the “revolution” to fail.
I think many have been exposed to plenty of great ideas about the sort of things that are possible, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t quite take root right now. I suspect, unfortunately, on the whole, energies just aren’t being spent in the right ways. At some point the whole user experience needs to be accounted for.
If decentralized platforms don’t learn that user interface designers are desperately needed, decentralization is not going to succeed. There’s a reason that tech has a certain look and feel that emerged in the early 2000s and parts of it have stayed around. People often need a lot of hand-holding and information at their fingertips to accept a platform.