Ethan revisits enshitification.
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“From Community Governance to Customer Service and Back Again: Re-Examining Pre-Web Models of Online Governance to Address Platforms’ Crisis of Legitimacy”
Ethan and Chand cover the history of “trust and safety” and talk about what it will take to build a safe Internet, from the standpoints of both technology and content moderation. Published by Social Media and Society, September 2023.
Prospect (UK): What happens when AI trains itself?
Ethan on the AI ouroboros.
“A Better Approach to Privacy for Third-Party Social Media Tools”
Ethan and Chand mark a case for middleware like Block Party in Tech Policy Press.
Prospect (UK): Want to stop harmful technology? Just say no
Ethan on refusing AI.
Prospect (UK): The Internet Can Be Better. Try Reddit.
Ethan talks about the interest-based, community moderated model.
Freq: A Platform Tuned for Music Community
Freq is an experimental platform for social music discovery from the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst.
We Mapped Reddit: Introducing RedditMap.social
By Ethan Zuckerman “Accents are just mouth fonts.” That brilliant observation is just one of the gems I found today on r/BrandNewSentence, an online community dedicated to collecting “sentences never before written, found in the wild”. Fans of these strange sentences also enjoy r/NatureIsMetal, which features images of animals being savage or brutal, and r/InstantKarma,… Continue reading We Mapped Reddit: Introducing RedditMap.social
Prospect (UK): When AI Thinks You’re Dead
Ethan on the dangers of relying on ChatGPT for factual info.
Keyword: Decentralization
This is an entry in our Keyword series, where we try to define the terms you’ll often hear when people talk about building a better Internet and put those keywords in their current context. The term decentralization gets thrown around a lot today, often referring to a paradigm shift in Internet technologies that’s just around… Continue reading Keyword: Decentralization