Cortex on MeFi & Communities
2017-11-09 19:45:08.735339+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Y'all know this, but I tossed this link up on Facebook and felt like I should copy it here:
I've been doing this social media thing for long enough that grad students call me up to interview me about my role in the history (and to try to get introductions to the people who were famous in it...). My "blog" (formed before Peter Merholz and/or Brad Graham coined the term) is coming up on 20 years of pretty continuous updating. We were talking about echo chambers and the dynamics of curation back in the '90s, and I was late to Metafilter because I hated the idea of centralized discussion. I wanted those conversations to happen on my web site and your web site. Anyway, as we seem to have ceded our human curation of the world over to the opaque and likely malicious algorithms of Facebook, Twitter and the like, this struck me as some worthwhile thoughts on building and nurturing (online) community...
Josh Millard - Keeping Web Communities Healthy in a Dark Timeline - DonutJS October 2017 YOUTUBE.COM