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Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation — mentioned by garethsprice

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:40:30 GMT

How does ATProto solve the problems that the last 10–20 years have shown seem intrinsic to all social media once it hits a certain scale? For example: A simple simulation of social networks rapidly reproduced three well-documented dysfunctions: partisan echo chambers, concentrated influence among a small elite, and amplification of polarized voices - creating a "social media prism" that distorts political discourse. Notably, all attempts at conscious intervention failed to help or made things worse. [1] Rather than fostering closer relationships, the algorithms and structures underlying…

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Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation — HN submission

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:41:20 GMT

Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Using Generative Social Simulation

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Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation — mentioned by notarobot123

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:30:57 GMT

> Situated software isn't a technological strategy so much as an attitude about closeness of fit between software and its group of users, and a refusal to embrace scale, generality or completeness as unqualified virtues. I read a paper about social media being the way it is because of it's scale above other factors[0]. There's something to be said for small, purpose built software networks that never intend on eating the world. I wonder if the barriers to entry for building stuff like this is going down. Maybe there's still hope for a network of networks that looks more like this. [0]…

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Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation — HN submission

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:24:04 GMT

Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions Using Social Simulation

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Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation — HN submission

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:44:39 GMT

Can We Fix Social Media? Prosocial Interventions Using Generative Simulation

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Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation — HN submission

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:30:43 GMT

Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions Using Generative Sims

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Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation — mentioned by gamacodre

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:54:26 GMT

A recent study[1] seems to indicate that polarization is a hard problem, along with some of the other negative effects of social media. Many of the commonly suggested solutions have minimal impact, or no effect at all. That flywheel effect is surprisingly robust. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

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Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation — mentioned by Zak

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:40:45 GMT

The study is based on having LLMs decide to amplify one of the top ten posts on their timeline or share a news headline. LLMs aren’t people, and the authors have not convinced me that they will behave like people in this context. The behavioral options are restricted to posting news headlines, reposting news headlines, or being passive. There’s no option to create original content, and no interventions centered on discouraging reposting. Facebook has experimented[0] with limits to reposting and found such limits discouraged the spread of divisive content and misinformation. I mostly use…

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Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation — HN submission

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:47:10 GMT

Testing Prosocial Interventions Using Generative Social Simulation

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