It looks like Pol.is isn't a social network at all, but rather a more open-ended alternative to polling. Like with a survey, you do need some way to convince people to participate. It might be a...
It looks like Pol.is isn't a social network at all, but rather a more open-ended alternative to polling. Like with a survey, you do need some way to convince people to participate. It might be a good source of ideas for Tildes, though?
Disrupting the back and forth nature of replies is an interesting idea.
There was no reply button, so people couldn't troll each other's posts. And rather than showing the messages that divided each of the four groups, Pol.is simply made them invisible. It gave oxygen instead to statements that found support across different groups as well as within them.
"Change the information structure," Colin Megill, one of its founders, told me, "and you can tweak power".
Technically, the tweak was small, but politically its effect was enormous. Rather than encourage grandstanding or the trading of insults, it gamified finding consensus.
Disrupting the back and forth nature of replies is an interesting idea.
It looks like Pol.is isn't a social network at all, but rather a more open-ended alternative to polling. Like with a survey, you do need some way to convince people to participate. It might be a good source of ideas for Tildes, though?
There is an open source version: https://github.com/pol-is/polisServer
Company FAQ: https://intercom.help/polis/en/articles/1461874-polis-faq
Disrupting the back and forth nature of replies is an interesting idea.