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i think twitter is still humanity's one & only interesting intermingling spot online. basically there's no other mass engaged options; win by default. through f
by rektide 5y ago
i think twitter is still humanity's one & only interesting intermingling spot online. basically there's no other mass engaged options; win by default. through few virtues of twitters own, other than the happenstanve of being ancient as fuck: the living/undying/undead proof of metcalfe's law & the irreplaceability it implies. nothing comes close. it is the only online hotbed of mass democratic activity & it's so interesting. personally it has gotten a lot more droll & tired but imo that's just the age, the world today: less exciting, less energy, shittier.
but twitter murdering in the cradle alternative interfaces, ideas, tools... them de-democratizing democracy... that was deeply deeply deeply traitorous. it really held back the ability of people to participate as they might in democracy, to advance their own perch & perspective in the fray. it keeps us trapped at a low mode, forever and ever. as well as sabotaging the general age of hopefulness & apis we were underway exploring. one huge fuck up for twitter, a mass epic radical loss for human & societal values in general. fuck us.