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# Social Friction
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- [[pull]] [[friction]] [[design]]
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- [[push]] [[slow web]]
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**Social Friction** is the intentional design of resistance in social interactions to prevent thoughtlessness, harassment, or mob behavior.
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## Efficiency is not the Goal
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Silicon Valley design usually optimizes for "removing friction". One-click signups, instant retweets, seamless sharing.
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* **Result:** Viral misinformation, brigading, low-effort interactions.
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## Good Friction
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In the [[Agora]], we might *want* friction:
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* **The Cooling Period:** You can't reply to a heated node for 5 minutes.
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* **The Effort Barrier:** To contribute a subnode, you have to actually write a markdown file and push git (currently). While we want to lower barriers to entry, some barrier acts as a filter for intent.
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* **The Context Check:** "You are about to link to a private garden. Are you sure?"
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## Friction as Governance
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Friction is a form of soft governance. It shapes behavior not by forbidding actions, but by making harmful actions "expensive" (in terms of time/effort) and beneficial actions "cheap".
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