The Social Construction of Emotions - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVQUnddM5Vg

Band name of the day: the social factory

Individualism is not a sufficient foundation for social life | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/individualism-is-not-a-sufficient-foundation-for-social-life

why are there so many decentralized social media projects that aren’t well known and haven’t been worked on in a few years

Society for the Promotion of Describing Social Constructs as ‘Eldrich’ and ‘Uncanny’

Too Many Requests https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/aqsej3/errors_of_scale_in_social_media_design_thinking/

Editions https://qz.com/1533143/the-best-way-to-use-social-media-is-to-act-like-a-19th-century-parisian/

Almost all the content I post to social media is posted by a small shell script that simultaneously posts to several services or through IFTTT duplicating those posts to services for which I lack an API key. When facebook broke automated posting, it meant my account went dark. I didn’t notice.

The New Social Media – nadreck.me https://nadreck.me/2019/01/the-new-social-media/

How to Fix Social Media by Injecting A Chunk of the Blogosphere https://kottke.org/19/01/how-to-fix-social-media-by-injecting-a-chunk-of-the-blogosphere

josef: “biggest problem with computers is they’re still d…” - Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@jk/593197

Social networks, the old way - enpo.no https://enpo.no/2019/2019-01-10-social-networks-the-old-way.html

social_media_design | How should names work in a distributed system? A suggestion for a context-aware petname approach https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/886.html

The year social networks were no longer social – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/23/the-year-social-networks-were-no-longer-social/

Elon Musk is the first influencer CEO - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18150813/elon-musk-influencer-ceo-social-media-tesla-spacex

Your New Social Credit Score - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WByBm2SwKk8

We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper bound). We can define them as how far a lie can go before the truth gets its boots on. Spookiness level one – money – already goes basically perpetually.

The Fun Is Back in Social Media…Again! https://kottke.org/18/12/the-fun-is-back-in-social-mediaagain

1. don’t confuse ‘the internet’ with ‘the web’; 2) don’t confuse ‘the web’ with ‘social media’; 3) don’t confuse ‘social media’ with ‘corporate social media’

Let’s be real, here. Approximately zero of you on this social network are not also on tumblr. (And, I am cross-posting this to several social networks.) The culture isn’t gonna change much with a post-tumblr exodus.

Social Media Consciousness https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/07/social-media-consciousness/

Five Geek Social Fallacies http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html

Up and running (plodding?) now on twtxt. Another day, another federated social network…

Hot take: social constructs are notoriously difficult to build universal theories about, because belief is fickle and eldrich. Talking or thinking about social constructs is liable to make them change

Science Fiction Is Not Social Reality - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pxjd/science-fiction-is-not-social-reality

Bad idea of the day: a social network where post literally fade because the contrast is computed with the inverse of time. A spinoff where bugs slowly eat away at posts.

Bunny-Girl Senpai is an interesting show. It seems to be going for a theme with the various arcs: each one seems to be about how communications media change our behavior & self-image by exerting social pressure with expectations.

In one sense, ‘the computer revolution is over’ because the period of exponential growth behind the tech ended 10 years ago. In another sense, it hasn’t begun: we have sheltered ourselves from the social and intellectual ramifications of computing. Documents are still simulations of paper, & capitalism still exists. So it’s like that period where printing presses existed but everybody used a faux-calligraphic font.

Better metaphors for community management than ‘social engineering’: ‘social gardening’, ‘social pickling’, ‘social brewing’, ‘social stewing’, ‘social mixtaping’

@tx@shroom.party A lot of the original ‘text’ on social media is already an image, so sharing it as screenshot is not even the root cause.

how i found out about twtxt btw: gopher://fuckup.solutions/0/enkiv2/medium-backup/2018-06-15_Exocortex-tools-part-I–social-media-automation-with-very-small-shell-scripts-62d995242a57.txt

The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-deliberate-awfulness-of-social-media

Despite a really crappy title, this is a good article: https://medium.com/s/story/were-primed-to-be-addicted-to-social-media-b6b31cfc4099

Bad idea of the day: univocalipogram.social

Hot take: the profit motive is incompatible with goals of social equity simply because those who can afford to pay for their services will always be privileged by a profit-motivated organization

Socially Conscious Sci-Fi | The Smart Set https://thesmartset.com/socially-conscious-sci-fi/

How Wikipedia dodged public outcry plaguing social media platforms https://medium.com/wiki-strategies/platform-a3b8c3ce901e

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net My take on this is… let’s let people ruin the web. Let centralized services control everything. But let us tech savvy people stick together and provide an alternative space for us. A space that’s welcoming to those that want to join and learn. Maybe people will come over when their online actions show real life consequences. There are statistics about decreasing social media use in Generation Z. Maybe they want to learn from us Internet-Dinosaurs :)

When a social structure is flat (like twitter) all friction is between people & there’s no ‘natural’ adjuticator except a powerful & unaccoutable adjutication class. When it has cliques (like mastodon) it can be broken down & adjuticators are limited in power.

Hot take: smashing the state of mind (i.e., producing the mental and cultural conditions for statelessness) goes beyond class consciousness & requires almost everybody to ‘get’ social dynamics in cybernetic terms, at scale. It’s an anti-specialization; heuristics won’t suffice. Communities exist that already do this (ex., kink).

China Miéville: Marxism and Halloween - Socialism 2013 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paCqiY1jwqc

Band name of the day: social anosmia

Hot take: the ‘rule of law’ is only possible because social norms have made deviations from desired behavior rare. The policeman in your head does the heavy lifting. When norms diverge from law, norms win.

periodic reminder that weapons in of themselves don’t have a moral valence & we should think materially about whether or not their use is appropriate to our goals, instead of vaguely about accidental associations. this includes social/memetic weaponry like protest techniques

article idea: media (esp. social media) as perverse psychogeography, & the inhabitants of transient spaces by career & disposition

Algorithmic glass ceiling in social networks: the effects of social recommendations on network diversity | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/05/24/algorithmic-glass-ceiling-in-social-networks-the-effects-of-recommendation-on-social-diversity/

Against trendism: ipfs://QmQDqrz8Asn3wPbiTHFH9pyAXPNxwbeytJgzWUHF1PZup2 / http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQDqrz8Asn3wPbiTHFH9pyAXPNxwbeytJgzWUHF1PZup2 / gopher://fuckup.solutions/1enkiv2/medium-backup/2018-04-01_Against-trendism–how-to-defang-the-social-media-disinformation-complex-81a8e2635956.txt / https://medium.com/@/against-trendism-how-to-defang-the-social-media-disinformation-complex-81a8e2635956

GitHub - evbogue/starboard: Scuttlebot distributed social in your terminal https://github.com/evbogue/starboard

Returning to the Original Social Network https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-08-returning-original-social-network.html

Have you tried pretending not to care about the problem in order to gain social currency among people who believe that the outgroup only pretends to care about the problem in order to gain social currency?