Greatly enjoyed your analogies to financial trading and market structures—fascinating parallels! I left Twitter in mid-2021, well before any talk of a sale, and joined the decentralized Mastodon fediverse; Bluesky as soon as it became available—what can I say? I'm quick to recognize ahead-of-the-curve tech potential. I couldn’t quite find community on Mastodon and quit a month or so ago. I was planning to quit Bluesky too, as it also felt like an empty party, but this weekend's momentum shift is palpable and those “starter packs” are already making waves!
Your point on fragmentation resonates deeply: like alternative presses, platforms will likely co-exist in a complex ecosystem. Recently, I’ve been defending Substack on a professional community forum. Bottom line: until we set clear boundaries between profit-making and the human costs of toxic flow, we’ll continue cycling through new “markets” of information.
The global future of digital information feels less about centralization and more about navigating these fragmenting flows—and, in the words of futurists, learning, unlearning, and relearning. It’s also about understanding our own unique infophilic information lifestyles (love of information and connections) to foster inclusion and turbocharge equity :). Thanks for a thought-provoking read!
Have really been enjoying the analogy you are exploring.
Do you have a take on Nostr? Promoted as the most fragmented ("Decentralised") of all the social media platform? Not a user myself.
Thanks.
To be honest I don't know much about Nostr. I haven't heard anyone mention it. How many users do they have?
There's all manner of introductions to Nostr on YouTube, you should watch one. It's a fascinating idea, and I think it has a big future.
Funny, I was about to ask the same thing. Also not a user, but I want to be.
Greatly enjoyed your analogies to financial trading and market structures—fascinating parallels! I left Twitter in mid-2021, well before any talk of a sale, and joined the decentralized Mastodon fediverse; Bluesky as soon as it became available—what can I say? I'm quick to recognize ahead-of-the-curve tech potential. I couldn’t quite find community on Mastodon and quit a month or so ago. I was planning to quit Bluesky too, as it also felt like an empty party, but this weekend's momentum shift is palpable and those “starter packs” are already making waves!
Your point on fragmentation resonates deeply: like alternative presses, platforms will likely co-exist in a complex ecosystem. Recently, I’ve been defending Substack on a professional community forum. Bottom line: until we set clear boundaries between profit-making and the human costs of toxic flow, we’ll continue cycling through new “markets” of information.
The global future of digital information feels less about centralization and more about navigating these fragmenting flows—and, in the words of futurists, learning, unlearning, and relearning. It’s also about understanding our own unique infophilic information lifestyles (love of information and connections) to foster inclusion and turbocharge equity :). Thanks for a thought-provoking read!
Thanks for thought response
Wrote an update last night :)
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https://rupakghose.substack.com/p/fragmentation-theory-part-ii