In some ways Musk is actually correct about social media. Its worst characteristics come from anonymity, from…

In some ways Musk is actually correct about social media. Its worst characteristics come from anonymity, from the decoupling from real community life. That enables and excuses sociopathic behaviour. Opinions without consequences, without regulation by basic community life. /1

Unfortunately though if you remove anonymity while changing nothing else, it just exposes people to the sociopaths. Like throwing blood in the water around swimmers at the beach. But my FB thought experiment is partly about this. How to add more real world stickiness. /2

Bringing communities back in to ‘land’, networking people in ways that are more substantial than just shared ideas. Bringing those ideas and the people who agree with them back into their everyday communities. Opinions without real-life community are just hot air. /end