the software itself that facilitates social media has been skewed heavily toward the consumtion of software. nostr opens the door for anyone to be a producer of software
nostr can lead the way to a better balance between production and consumption of social media
the media itself does encourage a particular distribution between consumption and production. old media, like broadcast TV, is an example extreme example of the consumer heavy model
the next dimension in this map of social media is a continuum between content production and consumption. this is not a property of the social media itself, but in the way a user is using it at a given time
I got the last one mixed up! a phone call may appear at first glance to be a fully synchronous (simultaneous) communication, but in reality people usually take turns. you can always interrupt, but it would take special skills to be able to listen and talk at the same time
a phone call may seem to be fully asynchronous, but that is only true if you can talk and listen at the same time. in reality, most people take turns speaking
these producer/consumer and synchronous/asynchronous dimensions of social media exist on a spectrum. for example, a microblog is more synchronous than a regular blog which is more synchronous than a high production value video channel
...would be doomscrolling tiktok
the ideal asynchronous consumer is the RSS reader. a pathological example asynchronous consumer
social media usage can be categorized as producer/consumer and synchronous/asynchronous
we have to create algorithms that get rid of infinite scrolling
anyone playing politics at that level knows they're getting a bullet if they step out of line
