This is a pretty great insight. It's a promising direction. I have touched a similar topic in 2019 when I wrote a research report about a social action platform. I used G.H. Mead's ideas such as "social act", "social positions", and "perspective taking" to reflect on the design of the platform. An insight I learned from the report is the distinction between "social positions" and "platform positions".

While "Social positions" refers to real social life, the "platform positions" only refers to the small world of a particular platform.

Moreover, I realized that the distinction indicate a knowledge creation opportunity because digital platforms create a new type of social reality, and we can expand or modify tradtioanl social theories to explain and design the new social reality.