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Sure, but what do you think would happen without Twitter? It'd be another social network like Twitter. Or it'd be split up and you'd have to manage Twitter-repl
by sushid 6y ago
Sure, but what do you think would happen without Twitter? It'd be another social network like Twitter. Or it'd be split up and you'd have to manage Twitter-replacement A and B.
- _qulr 6y agoI don't think we can take for granted that another social network with hundreds of millions or billions of user can just easily arise. Many social networks have tried and failed. Also, we were perhaps very naive about the corrosive social and political effects of massive social networks back in the early days of Facebook and Twitter. Hopefully we would look more critically at them and not make the same mistakes again. IMO it would be much better to have multiple smaller social networks rather than a small number of global networks. Is there any good reason to throw together everyone in one big madhouse — tech, politics, sports, entertainment, commerce — and have a completely "open" forum where anyone in the world can reply and argue with anyone else, on any subject? I feel that was a giant mistake.