#💬Communication#🎆Media#🎨Workshop#⛲️Original
These are my ideas for improving social media. Published ideas will be tagged as being part of Opine.
My design niche & focus
- Focus on good faith usage
- Assume everyone on social media is flying on instruments
- Advocacy through Prototypes
- Build off-ramps for bad emotions
- What is the Purpose of Social Media
- Rebuild Senses lost online
- Level Up Users
- Solve Problems in Social Media
- Think about Middleware (as Tracy Choi discusses here)
My Twitter Product Vision (2022)
Information Velocity / slowing things down
Expectation Management
Setting Expectations in Social Media - compiles these
- ⭐️ Conversation Cues
- ⭐️ Response Guidance
- ⭐️ Conversation Mirrors
- ⭐️ Similar Replies
- ⭐️ Twitter Breaks
- Acknowledgement Prompt
- Confirmation Prompt
- ⭐️ Interaction Preferences
- Reply Composer
- Let Downs
- Emotion-labeled text
Quality
- Contribution Check - checks whether a reply adds something new to the conversation by doing a pre-search
Media Literacy
- ⭐️ Literacy Prompt - teaching media literacy
- ⭐️ Context Mode - showing full context of tweet
- That’s Bait - identifying bait-y posts
Reputation and Values
Pro-Social Reminders
Emotion Management
Fallibility & Restorative Justice
Better Feeds
- Re-Feed
- Topical Feed
- Feed Insertion API
- ⭐️ Scroll Breaks
- ML Feed Filtering
- Explore Summaries
- Programmable Attention by Andy Matuschak
Deeper Community
Misinformation
- Undo Following
- Universal Media Label Standard
- Feed Corrections
- Reality Checks
- Provenance Analysis
- Activity Review
- Misleading Counts (2024) - interesting!
Wouldn’t it be nice
Features that may be impossible to build but it’d be nice if they existed
- Predictive Reflections - Predict how a user’s reply may land with the recipient, presented to user with Confirmation Prompt.
- Expertise Awareness - Might we say ‘this person is an expert in this subject’ so as to avoid ‘r/doyouknowwhoiam’? Maybe, if it’s possible to discern the subject in question and the person’s expertise, since we are in a counter-cycle of expertise.
- Diversity Humanization - Use humanization prompts to highlight differences between users in Reflections. Do we give warnings things like ‘this user has had different experiences than you in the following XYZ ways’ for each way people differ? Probably not, as that can easily overwhelm.
- Cross-Cultural Awareness - Opportunity for further cross-cultural expectation setting (this user is based in X location and may have different POV). Could also be applied to hashtags or trending topics, with a banner above the Explore sections that show the ‘this is trending in (region) or (members of culture)’
- Jerkbucks - You get a limited resource of JERKBUCKS that you can spend to tweet content that sounds mean, according to the ML system. Once spent, jerky tweets are disallowed entirely. Perhaps a way to get back jerkbucks is if someone gives you theirs, or you have to pay, or if your response is justified, something like that. Alternate non-visible version of this is the notion that not all users should be treated equally in content moderation consequences, e.g. a new user with 0 value added is very different from a consistently value-adding user. Question is what level of ‘equality’ is there between different participants. Related: Build Community > Two Equalities
- Block Shame - a ‘mute and signal to user’ button. 1st degree connections if they encounter this person can see ‘this user was muted by X for Y’ where Y is the tweet in question. Long-run concern here, if everyone does it it’ll be done a lot and people will have all sorts of tags on them. Perhaps upping the threshold (very recent activity or lots of activity over time). Each design needs to have some levers to pull during implementation - just how visible to make the shame is this one’s. Related: Lack of Disapproving Glare
Not sure if good or bad
- Reply Token - give a token (sort of like a Rose in dating apps) to get to head of line but if other person finds it abusive you lose privileges
Others ideas
- Twemex - Twitter Memex extension by Geoffrey Litt - see people’s best tweets not just most recent, among other things
- Tweaks for Twitter extension by Jeff Johnson - filter/turn off certain features that are distracting (Explore, DM pop-up, etc)
Observations
What are Best Practices on Social Media
Related
News Consumption Across Social Media in 2021 - More than half of Twitter user get news on the site regularly