> one person can have hundreds of thousands and even millions of followers that basically encourages flamewars, short inflammatory comments Honestly you just d

> one person can have hundreds of thousands and even millions of followers that basically encourages flamewars, short inflammatory comments Honestly you just described reddit, too, except of course for the follower count—but the point is that reddit doesn’t have to have that many participants in a discussion thread for it to reach a level of toxicity same as Twitter. Sure, social media did make information more accessible, but the vision of the internet before Web 2.0 was that it’ll democratize information without the trade off that comes with social media today—because that trade off is exactly what we hated then about the status quo.