Community-as-a-moat, the golden triangle of social media products and attracting and retaining creators| lillianli.substack.com
A design pattern to reduce centralized control and change incentives in social networks.| Varun Srinivasan
Retro web, simple web, and alternatives to the web A simple gopher client for Gnome, written in Vala This is in early stages, but it works fine for most gopher sites. I would like to find time to help out with it. Shizaru, an opinionated web server This is a web server written in golang that attempts to “serve no evil” by imposing strong opinions on pages that it serves. The default opinions focus strongly on a “fast, safe, simple, clean, respectful” web.| jfm.carcosa.net
Hey there! Coinvise is a web3 platform that helps creators & communities build and manage their Social Tokens. You can join the community here. If you find this essay interesting, make sure to subscribe to this newsletter and follow Coinvise on Twitter. Enjoy! 🔥| coinvise.mirror.xyz
NOTE: I’d been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment, and just as I was about to publish it, Elon rate-limited Twitter and so, sensing a moment of weakness, Meta pulled up its launch date for Threads to yesterday. This piece doesn’t cover Threads directly, nor does it talk about the rate-limiting fiasco. It’s focused on why I think Twitter got so much worse over the past year. I thought about holding off and reworki...| Remains of the Day
In traditional social networks, our feed is created from scratch based on who we follow, who we interact with, and what we post. Eugene Wei’s famous status-as-a-service essay was the holy grail of social media, describing how participants behave in new platforms. Status was the scarce asset, and participants did work to earn the scarce asset and accrue social capital.| jammsession.mirror.xyz
Analyzing NFTs as Social Networks Using the Status-as-a-Service Framework| www.notboring.co
Paid groups, bespoke social networks, and the meaning of community for internet-native businesses.| subpixel.space
Welcome to the ongoing series on how we are building Cabin! In this deep-dive we talk about changing leadership styles and how a shift from direction to advocacy can support DAO and other digital-first organizations at scale.| creators.mirror.xyz
