I agree. They’re not even acknowledging the total horror show that public social media has become. Instead they’re leaning into AI and basically telling us that the reason we’re not happy is because of inefficient recommendation systems – a misreading of the room at levels only Bay Area execs can achieve. People’s contempt for these platforms rose proportionally to the amount of agency that these opaque recommendation engines removed.
If you want to innovate in this space, you have to change the game entirely. Perhaps it means exposing the parameters for “discovery” to let the users be in control. Perhaps it’s finding alternative revenue sources, so that the users become customers. Perhaps it’s about changing fundamentally how moderation, visibility and trust works. Taking an idea from 2010 and putting a GPT sticker on it ain’t it.
If you want to innovate in this space, you have to change the game entirely. Perhaps it means exposing the parameters for “discovery” to let the users be in control. Perhaps it’s finding alternative revenue sources, so that the users become customers. Perhaps it’s about changing fundamentally how moderation, visibility and trust works. Taking an idea from 2010 and putting a GPT sticker on it ain’t it.