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Surveys product and platform alternatives that could shift attention incentives from extraction to substance, evaluates build-new versus change-existing strategies, and proposes five differentiated product concepts with rationale and risks.
Surveys evidence on design interventions that reduce extraction: chronological feeds, friction before sharing, and user control over ranking algorithms.
Explores how engagement-based ranking and ad-supported business models are design choices, not natural laws. Cites evidence that alternative metrics can reduce divisive amplification and asks what it would take to make substance the default.