A Social Protocols OS
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- Many of us in the Web 1.0 and early 2.0 eras expected the internet to help with this. And while I love Twitter, etc. and have found many friends through them — they have a big weakness — social networking platforms have little incentive to help us form friendships or to support strong IRL communities. They’re ad-driven and ads work best when we’re glued to our screens consuming the best content from around the globe. They’d much rather us quote tweeting each other in dark rooms in our underwear than enjoying a relaxing dinner out with friends. (View Highlight)
- What if we had social networks that are actually incentivized to help us form complex friendships and groups that work well together over time? (View Highlight)
- My mind keeps going to what seems like a missing hole in all this — how do we make it easier to design, share, and run complex social protocols? We have low-level social primitives like messaging and group “containers” like Facebook Groups, Reddit, and Discord but nothing it seems that helps these level up to more sophisticated behaviors.
The world has changed a great deal in the last few decades and many of our old protocols don’t seem to work as well anymore. We need new easy to learn and run protocols (probably mostly digital) that help reduce friction to hanging out and working together. (View Highlight)
- Digitally mediated social protocols make a lot of sense to me. And perhaps my brain has been addled by too much time writing open source and frameworks but it seems like there should be a protocol OS and framework for designing and running social protocols which then can be invoked by groups.
Want to run a club? Invoke the club protocol and you get yearly elections of officers, dues collection, etc. Want to run a book group? Pick one of five popular maintained book group protocols off the shelf and get going. Want to do a monthly potluck dinner with a few other families? Grab it and it’ll help you arrange who’s hosting, the date, the time, dish assignments, etc.
This Social Protocol OS can be a layer that runs on top of social networks and messaging apps and arbitrary protocol programs can be written to run on top of it. (View Highlight)
title: “A Social Protocols OS”
author: “bricolage.io”
url: ”https://bricolage.io/a-social-protocols-os/”
date: 2023-12-19
source: reader
tags: media/articles
A Social Protocols OS
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Highlights
- Many of us in the Web 1.0 and early 2.0 eras expected the internet to help with this. And while I love Twitter, etc. and have found many friends through them — they have a big weakness — social networking platforms have little incentive to help us form friendships or to support strong IRL communities. They’re ad-driven and ads work best when we’re glued to our screens consuming the best content from around the globe. They’d much rather us quote tweeting each other in dark rooms in our underwear than enjoying a relaxing dinner out with friends. (View Highlight)
- What if we had social networks that are actually incentivized to help us form complex friendships and groups that work well together over time? (View Highlight)
- My mind keeps going to what seems like a missing hole in all this — how do we make it easier to design, share, and run complex social protocols? We have low-level social primitives like messaging and group “containers” like Facebook Groups, Reddit, and Discord but nothing it seems that helps these level up to more sophisticated behaviors.
The world has changed a great deal in the last few decades and many of our old protocols don’t seem to work as well anymore. We need new easy to learn and run protocols (probably mostly digital) that help reduce friction to hanging out and working together. (View Highlight)
- Digitally mediated social protocols make a lot of sense to me. And perhaps my brain has been addled by too much time writing open source and frameworks but it seems like there should be a protocol OS and framework for designing and running social protocols which then can be invoked by groups.
Want to run a club? Invoke the club protocol and you get yearly elections of officers, dues collection, etc. Want to run a book group? Pick one of five popular maintained book group protocols off the shelf and get going. Want to do a monthly potluck dinner with a few other families? Grab it and it’ll help you arrange who’s hosting, the date, the time, dish assignments, etc.
This Social Protocol OS can be a layer that runs on top of social networks and messaging apps and arbitrary protocol programs can be written to run on top of it. (View Highlight)