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drewww

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ex. research & data @twitch, phd @medialab, engineer @olincollege. he/him.

interested in: socio-technical systems, computer-mediated communication, online communities, data visualization

playing: card games, roguelikes, mobas, wargames, 18xx.

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drewww, to random
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The "enshittification" argument from Doctorow is descriptively accurate, but it's stronger if you lay out the "why." It's capitalism all the way down. As cash gets tight, the least efficient businesses (sub-scale ad supported social networks) all are getting squeezed. So they are turning the screws on whichever side of their marketplaces can take it to eke out profitability. It's not a moral issue for CEOs, as tempting as that is.

josephseering, to random

1/ I think it would be fair to say that, historically speaking, Reddit leadership has not had an especially sophisticated philosophy for platform governance.

Ordinarily, this would be a problem, but a happy accident of the relatively unsophisticated philosophy they did have was that it drove them to cede significant authority over large sections of the platform to people who had a fairly sound philosophy for community governance.

drewww,
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@josephseering what do you make of the financials? Seems like Reddit is not profitable, and 3rd party apps generate costs that aren’t offset by ads. Not saying protest is illegitimate, but “listen to moderators” doesn’t help there.

I guess the counter factual is you are saving on labor by listening to them. Not listening puts the whole enterprise at risk. But status quo is under water so something needs to change, it seems to me.

asb, to random
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As a grad student I was told that Nicholas Negroponte said something like "we shouldn't do user research, because we want to make things so new that users don't know what to make of them." Did he really say that? Anyone have a citation?

drewww,
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@andresmh @asb Adjacent to "the best way to predict the future is invent it" (Kay, not Negroponte) But I never heard a statement about user research per se.

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