(I don’t have much to say but I’d generically note: I’d suspect significant gains from medium-depth theorization here. Like, my speculative guess is: There’s various dynamics and resources and stuff at play, which are fairly obvious if you sit down to write them out; and then if you think about various one- or two-step inferences from those basics, you get interesting novel ideas about how to structure media platforms. Examples: attention, boosting, piggybacking, replying, affiliations, trust. Etc. Then ask, what is “a LW post” or “a LW comment” or “a LW quicktake” or “a tweet” or “a tweet reply” or “a QT” or “a substack post” or etc etc in these terms? What are the affordances and natural patterns of attention and information processing associated with each one? What space of possible such [media-chunk roles] does that suggest?)
(I don’t have much to say but I’d generically note: I’d suspect significant gains from medium-depth theorization here. Like, my speculative guess is: There’s various dynamics and resources and stuff at play, which are fairly obvious if you sit down to write them out; and then if you think about various one- or two-step inferences from those basics, you get interesting novel ideas about how to structure media platforms. Examples: attention, boosting, piggybacking, replying, affiliations, trust. Etc. Then ask, what is “a LW post” or “a LW comment” or “a LW quicktake” or “a tweet” or “a tweet reply” or “a QT” or “a substack post” or etc etc in these terms? What are the affordances and natural patterns of attention and information processing associated with each one? What space of possible such [media-chunk roles] does that suggest?)