🐾 a Social Network Taxonomy.
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- Before everyone abandons big room social networks and builds their own VSOP, it is worth noting the serious limitations of this method of social networking. It requires significant effort to scaffold healthy conversations, no matter the purpose and community being served. These networks can easily become ghost towns if they don’t meet a real need. Even if these networks do thrive, there are serious problems with discoverability—because these networks don’t federate, their contents are by default only open to members of the community. Making these networks searchable is a significant technical and conceptual problem. (View Highlight)
🐾 a Social Network Taxonomy.
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Highlights
- Before everyone abandons big room social networks and builds their own VSOP, it is worth noting the serious limitations of this method of social networking. It requires significant effort to scaffold healthy conversations, no matter the purpose and community being served. These networks can easily become ghost towns if they don’t meet a real need. Even if these networks do thrive, there are serious problems with discoverability—because these networks don’t federate, their contents are by default only open to members of the community. Making these networks searchable is a significant technical and conceptual problem. (View Highlight)