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I've always felt the fundamental flaw of Twitter is it focuses on people, and so ego gets in the way and ruins things. It's a popularity contest. Contrast that
by city41 5y ago
I've always felt the fundamental flaw of Twitter is it focuses on people, and so ego gets in the way and ruins things. It's a popularity contest. Contrast that with say Reddit, where you can go to a niche subreddit and it's not about people at all, it's about the topic of the subreddit. Everyone is just talking about the topic, and no one cares who you are. I find that to be a much more healthy and enjoyable experience. And to be fair, mainstream reddit has a lot of ego in it too. My trouble is finding "niche twitter" seems to be impossible, after 10ish years now I still haven't found it. I'm convinced it doesn't exist.
edit: HN also fits the bill here.
- qPM9l3XJrF 5y agoreddit can be incredibly angry as well. Downvoting has advantages, but a disadvantage is creation of echo chambers where people feed off each other to get more and more angry, only hearing the worst from those who disagree. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
- city41 5y agoI agree, but I think that mostly happens in mainstream Reddit. I still feel like smaller subreddits are still a nice oasis in this current era of the internet.
- blueblimp 5y agoThe focus on people has upsides too though. On reddit, you tend to see mostly content from people who post a lot, even if they are kind of dumb. With Twitter, you can choose to follow only people you actually respect.
- city41 5y agoThat's a good point. Although for me, I find it frustrating that content on Twitter from an account can be anything. They may be known for certain types of tweets, but nothing stops them from tweeting completely random things. In general I find the signal/noise on Twitter is often quite bad. To be fair, I'm not a fan of Twitter, so I'm pretty biased in this discussion.