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Leaflet — social publishing on the Atmosphere
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Bulletin Board: Pilots, Muse, and Slow Technology
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The Dystopian Reality of Online Advertising
My leaflets now show on my personal blog - Paul's Leaflets
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Ronny Chieng
Instead of figuring out how to game these horrible social media algorithms by flooding my followers with dumb content, I’m trying to actually respect my audience for once by creating an email list to contact you only when I want something from you. For example, if I’m performing live in your area and I want to you to come, or if I have a new comedy special out and I want you to click on it, or beam it into your brain or whatever the comedy platform of the future will be. Sign up below and unsubscribe at anytime.
Announcing mu.social, and other news - Updates from the Modal Foundation
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Custom Feeds Are Not Communities — A Design Theory of Feeds and Commons - Nightflight
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The Playoffs On Bluesky, On Leaflet, On Graze and on Open Social - Graze Newsletter
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Piloting paid memberships for the open social web! - Leaflet Lab Notes
Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!
annot.at
annot.at watches your RSS feed and publishes every new post to atproto using the standard.site lexicon, so readers across Leaflet, pckt.blog, Offprint, and any other ATmosphere reader can find it.
boards · private message boards on AT Proto
Invite-only message boards on Bluesky's AT Protocol. Posts live in each member's own PDS, readable only by the board's members and never on the public firehose.
Community by Design
Social media empower distributed content creation by algorithmically harnessing "the social fabric" (explicit and implicit signals of association) to serve this content. While this overcomes the bottlenecks and biases of traditional gatekeepers, many believe it has unsustainably eroded the very social fabric it depends on by maximizing engagement for advertising revenue. This paper participates in open and ongoing considerations to translate social and political values and conventions, specifically social cohesion, into platform design. We propose an alternative platform model that includes the social fabric an explicit output as well as input. Citizens are members of communities defined by explicit affiliation or clusters of shared attitudes. Both have internal divisions, as citizens are members of intersecting communities, which are themselves internally diverse. Each is understood to value content that bridge (viz. achieve consensus across) and balance (viz. represent fairly) this internal diversity, consistent with the principles of the Hutchins Commission (1947). Content is labeled with social provenance, indicating for which community or citizen it is bridging or balancing. Subscription payments allow citizens and communities to increase the algorithmic weight on the content they value in the content serving algorithm. Advertisers may, with consent of citizen or community counterparties, target them in exchange for payment or increase in that party's algorithmic weight. Underserved and emerging communities and citizens are optimally subsidized/supported to develop into paying participants. Content creators and communities that curate content are rewarded for their contributions with algorithmic weight and/or revenue. We discuss applications to productivity (e.g. LinkedIn), political (e.g. X), and cultural (e.g. TikTok) platforms.
