Oh hell yeah it’s the semioscape person. Thanks for posting! I will say that I skimmed through parts (it’s quite long for typical HN fair and tends towards repetition), but overall glad I stuck with it. Would recommend - at least to check out the sections, and the questions at the end.

I always try to leave a critical comment but I don’t have much for this one. The citations in particular were fascinating, never heard of any of those thinkers. I hope to hear their web dev ideas on this at some point, when they come:

  Yet the space for radical and experimental acts of curating networks remains largely untapped. Social networks are often organic and incidental, forming around affinities, common encounters, desire, collective will, and so on. But are there methods for growing networks in ways that enhance their capacity for creating ambient meaning? What processes of associative reinforcement and meaning-making might enhance the ambient meaning of a network?

Definitely a thought provoking prompt… how might you concretize and automate inside jokes?