this is absolutely incredible

more collages please!!!!!

this is absolutely incredible

more collages please!!!!!!

this is my feel too.

it's large scale aggregation and filtering in exchange for erasure of independence and uniqueness. Nobody solved aggregation and discovery on a wide enough scale. Feels like RSS was mostly about distribution.

the larger apps are push in a way the old content was pull

I LOVE THIS

YES

this definitely makes sense! reminds me a bit of Lord of the Rings // the ring situation - where you need equal buy-in from everyone in order to get to the next level

the coolest friendships and relationships I've had formed have basically been "we have no script, let's just explore together and see where it takes us"

when I think of online dating - its predictability is helpful for keeping everyone sane. first date - something casual and non-committal in public. second - more intimate, maybe a dinner museum concert etc. etc etc

my online interactions tend to branch out a lot more quickly: the second time meeting someone online might be on a cool new service, a random call, a figma file, a random discord we are both on and just realized, a group convo

Unless I'm in a major metropolis there generally feels like there are farrrrr more "things" to do with people online and thus more room for serendipity and possible paths for us + our relationship to take while evolving

on the other hand, joining a brand new unfamiliar community with random people - it may be very nice to know I am next expected in x days at y place with z intentions

huge parallel to startups here! 4 person startup with 4 engineers is pretty much doomed. 4 different skill sets, who to some extent cannot truly verify or rate each other's work and thus require trust is a lot more likely to succeed

imagining a UI interface here with options that go from grayed-out/mysterious to accessible+colored as more people are found, and certain other ones disappearing as the max participant count is exceeded

yes! I remember playing online matched video games and each additional minute of lobby/wait time reduced my willingness to actually wait all the way

one potential mechanism here is to drop people into the game so they can start creating something that's not critically sync, and more players join as they are found until critical mass it reached

if however nobody does show up, there should probably be a mechanism to take that creation onto the next soft-lobby

counterpoint: some of the most raw + revealing accounts on Twitter are alts/anon. Yet they engage in trust-full interactions with others and (for the most part) remain accountable to ethical behavior/norms/etc.

Wondering if there are ways to incentive that, even without a strong association to one's identity

perhaps it allows them to just "unearth their identity"?

agreed true/not true goes down a different road. But I think of it more as surface area/canvas to throw my unknown/unexplored/undefined personality against, each interaction unearthing a little more of myself

imagine these are the ends of just one spectrum/dimension, and there are many more interactions along this line and orthogonal to it

great point - opportunities for deep relationships exist everywhere, but they are just that: opportunities. Require explicit steps to transform into something deeper