#002 - 2/25/24

Engagement vs Content

How do you create a social network where the incentive is not to fish for likes, follows and shares but to actually create good content?

Make the users work to create the content and scale down as much as possible on the interactivity. When you put effort into just putting it out there and there is little to gain from the engagement then you actually care more about the content you put out.

At least I think that's the model that neocities.org adopts and I think it's very valuable in this age of social network engagement addiction.

Of course there are still elements like the follows and likes and comments, but they are not even that much in plain sight, so the emphasis is much more in creating and owning your own thing and the devil may care who likes it or not. You make it for yourself.

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