Traditionally, the internet depended on the outside world—the so-called real world—for its content. Every social network began with users earnestly documenting what was happening in their lives (as epitomized by the early stereotype of Twitter just being people posting what they ate for lunch), but soon evolved its own set of conventions and norms that represented the world in a more stylized and distorted way. In 2012, Instagram may have been a visual index of the places where Instagram users spent time, but today it’s just an index of its own affordances and algorithmic incentives that happens to pull in external material, much of which was consciously designed to get posted on Instagram...
Trying to publish artefacts from the things I work on. Mostly design and software, focused on interfaces that are practical and flexible.
Also a reading log.
By Judah, one of the creators of streams.place.