Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth

Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth @sriramk

On flip side, lack of scarcity/"inflation" hurts social products. Example: Linkedin endorsements. If endorsements were limited in number, it would have real value. Imagine searching for only engineers endorsed as people's top 5 engineers they've ever worked with. — PolitiTweet.org

Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth @sriramk

Related: scarcity also helps with a core social platform problem - graph rot. As years go by, social graphs keep expanding and they no longer reflect your life/interests/the original context (see: “context collapse”). Having forced ranking is one way to solve for this. — PolitiTweet.org