Social Media in 2023 [S21E03]

This week the team consider that we might be at the "money ruins everything" stage of social media (eh, Reddit?). Rafe speculates that 'social' media is now driven more by advertising than friendship groups. We also talk about 'dark social', rafeblandford.com (Rafe's personal website) and remember Jaiku. Ben re-tells the 'Nazi Bar' story ( often cited as an example of how 'unmoderated' speech excludes people and isn't really 'free'. We use: * Ewan: LinkedIn and BeReal. * Rafe: Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok (but only in read-only). * Ben: Reddit, LinkedIn (grudgingly), Instagram (even more grudingly) and Mastodon (in hope). Ewan's still on the road. This week he's in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [Producer's note: This episode was recorded before Meta announced Threads. Content scheduling is hard.] Get in touch! Let us know your thoughts or topics you'd like to hear about in future via the website ( Twitter ( (if you must) or Mastodon ( (preferred).

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Social Media in 2023 [S21E03] is an episode from 361 Podcast by 361 Podcast / Ben Smith, Rafe Blandford & Ewan MacLeod.

This episode is 1:10:42 long.

This episode was published on Sep 3, 2023.

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