"Social media for vibe coding" is a thing lots of companies will do.
"Social media for vibe coding" is a thing lots of companies will do. A social network for vibe coding has a low ceiling. Apps are isolated islands which means most...
Topic: social media
49 chunks · 31 episodes
1.8x burst in 2025 Q2
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- social media appears in 49 chunks across 31 episodes, from 2024-10-14 to 2026-07-27.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 8/25/25 (2025-08-25), with 5 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with Facebook, sycosocial relationship, and search engine, while by chunk count it sits between tech industry and Apple; its yearly rank moved from #118 in 2024 to #33 in 2026.
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If you strip away work from people's day to day, what do they do with their time?
...fix that fundamental misalignment that is broken it can all be fixed. The web / social media is an adaptive emergent beast that does not have your best interests at heart. Be careful how much time you spend in its embrace!
Social complexity can expand without limit: an insatiable social vortex.
...gent will take it. A few contexts where this insatiable social vortex shows up: Social media engagement fights Culture wars Hyper-finacialized contexts like crypto Kayfabe in organizations
LLMs could allow humans to think 10,000 times more.
...g about how to get an edge in a zero-sum meme war? That's a waste. The zero-sum social media hellscape is a black hole that absorbs all of the mental energy humanity is willing to give it, without limit.
The stock market and social media both make things hyper legible in an addictive, all-consuming way.
The stock market and social media both make things hyper legible in an addictive, all-consuming way. Pulls people towards a short-term optimizing mindset. What you want, not what you ...
Meme-coins are like a hyper caustic acid.
...cid. They are the ultimate in legibility; a combination of the stock market and social media. They are so potent that they can make it through any communication channel, even low bandwidth, high friction ones. They'll find a way into the disc...
A general rule of thumb for compelling ideas: a number of different people who look at it go, "that right there could be great."
...f thumb about what things will be viral from Fil Menczer at IU's Observatory on Social Media. The best predictor of a post's virality is how unrelated the early resharers are in terms of their network overlap. Community Notes on Twitter is al...
Society has lost the spaces to have high-quality Hegelian synthesis of ideas.
Society has lost the spaces to have high-quality Hegelian synthesis of ideas. Social media takes the microphone away from people who say "I don't know." This does not happen on purpose; it's an implicit, emergent thing! In a cacophony, the ...
A team of researchers in 2017 tried to estimate the value of different services.
...30 / year email: $6,139 / year maps: $2,693 / year video streaming: $991 / year social media: $205 / year Significant consumer surplus!