also i think there are two separate conversations going on at the same time:
- whats the clearest way to communicate information to an audience during login
- whats the conceptual term to describe your did
the answer at 2 does not have to be the answer for 1
also i have certain preferences for what i think is good, but ive now been so thoroughly protocol-brainwormed that it is in a real sense impossible for me to form a proper mental model of how regular people will understand and read any of the proposals
my most practical advice is that any apps current target audience, with the atmosphere being as niche as it is, is gonna be drastically different from a hypothetical future where it is large and mainstream, and that its probably easiest to have now something different than in a years time
like, yeah, its unfair how people who are conventionally attractive have an advantage on short form video, but i think its helpful to also be mindful how microblogging also selects for a very specific type of person, and excludes a large majority of people from being succesful
i think the ability to treat microblogging as a public group chat and yap 50+ posts per day consistently is actually significantly rarer than being attractive enough for short form video
Excited to be speaking in London! Last version of Protocols for Publishers was awesome (so Ive been told, fomo on not being there), and honored to do a deeper dive into the current state of Open Social
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