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pretty much confirming my hunch that it's not an Eternal September problem with Twitter, but that it started being shit after Oprah and all the other celebritie
by thinkingemote 6y ago
pretty much confirming my hunch that it's not an Eternal September problem with Twitter, but that it started being shit after Oprah and all the other celebrities started using it and it being popular as a source of news.
It's not an influx of newbies at all. Social media can be full of literal clueless newcomers - it just needs to be social and not corporate.
It's why reddit is dying too - everyone suspects it and the actual effect is less opaque that it's also jumped the shark and is no longer democratically social but corporate / PR influenced.
- qqn 6y agoIt's a feedback loop though, whatever comes next will draw the crowds, which will draw loud voices, which will draw capitalists to form a structure (and career) out of it. There was a great essay on this topic that shows up here from time to time, using slightly different words: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths.