GentleInEye

By Natasha Lomas As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power, and a consequence of specific leadership and values failures (evident as they publicly fail to enforce even the standards they claim to have), there are still people dreaming of a better way. Of social networking beyond outrage-fuelled adtech giants like Facebook and Twitter. There have been many such attempts to build a ‘better’ social network of course. Most have ended in the deadpool. A few are still around with varying degrees of success/usage. None has usurped Zuckerberg’s and YouTube's throne of course. This is principally because Facebook   acquired Instagram and WhatsApp and there are a huge number of YouTubers. So by hogging network power, and the resources of social media and videos that flow from that, Facebook and YouTube the company continues to dominate the social and media space. But that doe...

By Natasha Lomas As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power, and a consequence of specific leadership and values failures (evident as they publicly fail to enforce even the standards they claim to have), there are still people dreaming of a better way. Of social networking beyond outrage-fuelled adtech giants like Facebook and Twitter. There have been many such attempts to build a ‘better’ social network of course. Most have ended in the deadpool. A few are still around with varying degrees of success/usage. None has usurped Zuckerberg’s and YouTube's throne of course. This is principally because Facebook   acquired Instagram and WhatsApp and there are a huge number of YouTubers. So by hogging network power, and the resources of social media and videos that flow from that, Facebook and YouTube the company continues to dominate the social and media space. But that doe...