Check out what yancey strickler is up to with meta label. I am finding some useful ways of thinking about creating and releasing stuff as a collective there
Meta label is off to a great start. But we need a new internet infrastructure designed around the individual. That’s what I’m working on. Internet 2.0, the sovereign internet.
I think Gatz somewhat solves this. It allows people to share to friends of friends, but also to post within their own interests groups or communities. So you get the discovery effect but also the small group effect.
The version of Gatz you describe probably has 10K to 100K users, whereas I'm fine with how many users there are now (like 160) but would be OK up to 1K as well.
As you know, for the last few years I've had all my feeds blocked and don't consume external media. I get all my news and information through friends. Generally I think this current tightknit discovery mechanism is adequate given a big and high quality enough groupchat because enough people are bringing ideas to me from outside that world that I don't need to find them myself. Of course, this doesn't scale when everyone is being an isolationist like me.
in a twist of exceptional irony, I heard from Priya that there is a whole conversation on Gatz in response to my piece that is literally private to me, the author of the piece, I assume because Gatz is a better place to discuss ideas than Substack.
I feel this. I think something like a periodical would be what I want. Just once a month give me an issue (online even) with the best takes. I don't need people's stream of consciousness-- and I don't want their thirst traps. Just give me the works in progress curated in a way that I can find my peeps and create real conversations with them
Check out what yancey strickler is up to with meta label. I am finding some useful ways of thinking about creating and releasing stuff as a collective there
Meta label is off to a great start. But we need a new internet infrastructure designed around the individual. That’s what I’m working on. Internet 2.0, the sovereign internet.
what we were doing at plexus https://open.substack.com/pub/plexus/p/scaling-intimacy?r=hk5g4&utm_medium=ios
I think Gatz somewhat solves this. It allows people to share to friends of friends, but also to post within their own interests groups or communities. So you get the discovery effect but also the small group effect.
The version of Gatz you describe probably has 10K to 100K users, whereas I'm fine with how many users there are now (like 160) but would be OK up to 1K as well.
As you know, for the last few years I've had all my feeds blocked and don't consume external media. I get all my news and information through friends. Generally I think this current tightknit discovery mechanism is adequate given a big and high quality enough groupchat because enough people are bringing ideas to me from outside that world that I don't need to find them myself. Of course, this doesn't scale when everyone is being an isolationist like me.
in a twist of exceptional irony, I heard from Priya that there is a whole conversation on Gatz in response to my piece that is literally private to me, the author of the piece, I assume because Gatz is a better place to discuss ideas than Substack.
I feel this. I think something like a periodical would be what I want. Just once a month give me an issue (online even) with the best takes. I don't need people's stream of consciousness-- and I don't want their thirst traps. Just give me the works in progress curated in a way that I can find my peeps and create real conversations with them