Flow of who paid you money

• List of followers (free)
• List of supporters (paid)
  • Posting privilege? DM privilege? “Can see private markets” privilege?
• List of investors (???)
  • Investing in a big pot of money, partly allocated via quadratic funding every X often
  • Question: How to pick the QF window?

Who is the curator: An individual? Or community?

One-shot game (like/comment) vs iterated game (subscribe/follow)

Research:

• Show me your information diet.
• When you’re bored, where do you go?
• Who do you follow (whose updates do you get)
• Who do you subscribe to (who do you pay for info)
• How do you post?
• Why do you post?

Personal inbox

• Mapping between email inbox and newsfeeds
• You curate your own list of things you see
  • A minority of these, you would publish/share to others on the platform

Community frontpage

• Upvotes are a consensus algorithm for what to display

Research

Simple Lists

• Hivemind, individual is de-emphasized
• List of news, time-decayed (HN)
  • Topic centered (Subreddit)
• Interwoven list of lists (Reddit homepage)

Twitter