Double Standards in Social Media Content Moderation
From Brennan Center for Justice
Platform rules often subject marginalized communities to heightened scrutiny while providing them with too little protection from harm.
Measuring Developer Relations
By Shawn [swyx] Wang
DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective DevRel *is*, and we don't agree on the tradeoffs of lagging vs leading metrics for a creative, unattributable, intimately human endeavor
- π Cultivating Community - A Rosieland guide to building communities β Rosieland
- π Monthly Recurring Relationships β Rosie Sherry
- π Curation is only as good as its maintenance β Rosie Sherry [Pro]
- π Most people lie when they say they want community β Rosie Sherry [Pro]
- π° Creating and measuring value in a community of practice β Katerina Bohlec [Paid newsletter, you should subscribe! β€οΈ]
- Monetizing the Curation Economy, Social Communities and Online Learning β Zoe Chew
- Substack CEO Chris Best wants to fix the viral internet β Ryan Broderick
- The Problem with Ethereum β Tomer Strolight
- The creator economy is in crisis. Now letβs fix it. β Li Jin
- Behind the Curtain: How Three Discord Communities Found Success in Stage Events β Discord
- A New Way to Build Social Trust β Aspen Institute
- In Nebraska, a weekly paper is filling its communityβs need for news β and booze β NiemenLab
- 'Communities Know Best': Climate Solutions in The South Bay Start With Listening β KQED
- Before TikTok, Witches Traded Their Spells on This Ancient Internet Forum β Vice
π Podcasts
- The Two Sides of the Community Coin - David Spinks Debates Rich Millington
- Fostering Resiliency for Community, Moderation, Trust, and Safety Pros β Community Signal
- Making Community Your Demand Generation Tool w/ Ben Winn β The Community Corner
- Networks and Transformational Communities - With Bill Johnston and Dr. Lauren Vargas β Cohere
π News
- Clubhouse is changing our name to Shortcut β Clubhouse / Shortcut
- In the wake of recent racist attacks, Instagram rolls out more anti-abuse features β TechCrunch
- Reddit is raising up to $700M in Series F funding β TechCrunch
π¦ Twitter
How can @discord better support DAOs π?
— Rick Ling (@blitzrick) August 14, 2021
It was bound to happen eventually. #TwitchDoBetter pic.twitter.com/mbiN4FtLIb
— OMEGA. (@CriticalBard) August 10, 2021
making money from collecting NFTs is a lot harder than it looks β the only way ive been able to do it is by becoming so deeply immersed in the ecosystem, probably by a factor 5-10x more than most people
— dame.eth (@damedoteth) August 14, 2021
Being in online communities made the last year better for many of us.
— Sonali Nigam π’ (@sonalinigamnyc) August 14, 2021
But with all new communities popping up, it's hard to find the right one
Here are some ideas on how you can find the right one for you #ship30for30 pic.twitter.com/4S9ywfBa5P
If youβre working in community and not following DAOs youβre doing it wrong
— Max Rothery (@maximillianroth) August 14, 2021
π https://t.co/leuydy5J7K
Love using @outseta to set up my private community.
— Justin Welsh (@JustinSaaS) August 12, 2021
Read about how I built automations using this powerful tool. https://t.co/5bzg7WvIPH
Consistency + Time = Trust
— Polina (@polina_marinova) August 12, 2021
The way you can earn peopleβs trust is by consistently keeping your word over a long period of time.
i feel like community managers have like, a few funny or one-off horror stories that they always share
— Victoria Tran π§ (@TheVTran) August 12, 2021
but then there is also always one standout "situation" that is spoken of only in dark alleyways, huddled community circles, and low whispers
*shivers*
Do you know what community brings to companies and brands?
— Francisco Fonseca β°οΈπ (@FonsecaFrancis8) August 11, 2021
Power of Humanity.
What if we say we tried to decode #RosiesMRR Yes, @rosiesherry came up with a tweet on Monthly Recurring Relationship and its impact on #CommunityMetric We took this as our central theme in Community & Cold Coffee. Here is how we arrived at the formula, https://t.co/FGtgWC04L7 pic.twitter.com/cArDLDLleH
— Habitate (@HabitateIO) August 11, 2021