I'm probably going to fail at conveying this idea, but I really need some guidance, so please bear with me.<p>If you consider across history, and redefine <i>all</i> "social mediums" as "social media", we have by far one of the most decentralized social systems available. However, the systems I see online are inadequate to capture the full scope of the idea.<p>We're now at a place where we don't need someone telling us about a bombing: we can see the video that some guy who caught it on the ground had randomly uploaded.<p>When I look at things like NYT/Reuters, I see a conventional "blog": paid specialists writing eloquent depictions of what happened. If I look at Facebook/Twitter, I see algorithmically tailored feeds of what people want, but precisely as people see it.<p>Is it possible to converge the two? If so, what kind of framework would you expect to see? And, from a critical mass standpoint, how do we make it the Wikipedia of social media?