The Ledger
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Fake: Social platforms are defined entirely by the behavior they tolerate
“One of the things that Heather Champ, who is a community manager, the first community manager on Flickr, one thing that she says repeatedly is that what you tolerate is what you are. So if you tolerate white supremacists on your platform, you are a platform fo…”
Fake: Early Flickr explicitly permitted bare midriffs despite alienating Muslim users
“You know, the Muslim community did not like the bare midriff photographs that were all over Flickr, and we had to make a decision, and we came down on the side of the bare midriff. We were like, the bare midriff is okay here, and that is a decision that we are…”
Fake: Founder-modeled community behavior naturally scales from 500 to 500,000 users
“If you do that, and you do it well, it will carry through. And then 500 people will be behaving the same way, and then 5000 people will be behaving that same way, and then eventually 500,000 people will be behaving that same way.”
Hoffman: Flickr introduced foundational web conventions like tagging and following
“They introduced conventions like tagging and following that are now deeply woven into the fabric of our online relationships.”
Fake: By Flickr's 2003 launch, most cameras were already inside mobile phones
“And if you look at when we started Flickr, we started it in 2003. More than 50% of all cameras were shipping with digital phones.”
Butterfield: Games matter primarily as excuses for social interaction
“It's not games that are so interesting to me, it's play as an excuse to interact with people socially.”
Butterfield: Flickr was born from survival instinct, not grand vision
“It wasn't coming from a grand vision of what photos could be. All that stuff came later. There was no insight. It was just like, can we not go out of business?”