The internet is very loud now. Not always in volume, but in insistence. Everything demands to be heard now, responded to now, taken seriously now. The architecture is designed to produce this feeling.
\nWhat I want — and what I think a lot of people want — is something slower. Not slower in the sense of less. I want the relationship between me and the things I read to be different. I want to encounter something, think about it for three days, and then respond. I want to follow someone for a year before I feel like I know them.
\nPart of this is about time. More of it is about architecture. The platforms we use shape the interactions we have. A platform that shows you a number of unread notifications is telling you something about what it values. A platform without that number is saying something different.
\nI've been thinking about what a social layer designed for the pace of a weekly magazine would look like. Not the content — the structure. How posts relate to each other. How time passes or doesn't.
\nI don't have a blueprint. But the question is worth sitting with.
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