On personal websites and social web – Manu ↦
On personal websites and social web
Manuel Moreale:
I still believe the first approach is doomed to fail. Because the issue with social media is not the tech, but the people. If you let enough people congregate in the same space some issues will inevitably arise. Grifters are gonna grift, scammers will try to scam, hustlers will hustle, influencers are gonna try to influence, and business people will try to monetise everything. It’s no surprise that Meta is slowly entering that space with Threads. And I don’t see Meta starting a blog platform next, letting everyone share and connect via RSS. So that alone tells me which approach is more appealing to the exact same entities we’re trying to get away from.
Having said that I’m hopeful. I do think people are slowly starting to realise that you can get immense human value from the web outside of traditional social media. You have to work for it but it’s absolutely worth it.