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Sociology of Social Media Platforms (universeodon.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ericjmorey to c/chat@beehaw.org

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I thought that the people here might find this thread on universeodon.com interesting.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/3236065

An explanation of two problems inherent to social media platforms from @siderea@universeodon.com

scale has social effects. Most technical people know that scale has technological effects. Same thing's true on the social side, too.

difference in perspective between the governance parties and the end users

Explanation starts

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[–] ericjmorey 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's lengthy for sure. It could absolutely use some distillation. But it had me thinking about a lot.

There's a repetitive theme of limited perspectives not giving a good base of knowledge for future prediction or evaluation.