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> I always hated the long multi-tweet essays I'm very new to twitter but I love them because feedback can be given on a (near) per sentence basis.
by nomilk 4y ago
> I always hated the long multi-tweet essays
I'm very new to twitter but I love them because feedback can be given on a (near) per sentence basis.
- layer8 4y agoYou’d have loved inline quoting on Usenet.
- rektide 4y agoWe can cite & quote pieces of Notes too. But it wont create anywhere near the interesting forms of engagement an already decomposed thread has. In a thread there are ready made pieces of the thread to talk about. Each piece of the thread has it's own likes. Discussions can start around any piece & we know they're talking about the same general area. Notes feels like a severe & critical downgrade, a regression to a pre-connected, earlier, less capable form. Putting different pieces of information/content into their own places, giving each their own url, giving each their own engagement points: that has been why Twitter's been so remarkably unlike anything else. Ideas have to be broken down, and that constraint has been what's made Twitter so powerful & engageable as a medium.
- lupire 4y agoEveryone is connected, but they are connected to nothing. We don't need more highly accessible trash.
- raydev 4y agoI was there. Someone should've made a nice, readable interface for it.
- layer8 4y agoActually, Usenet clients (like slrn) were the most usable and efficient discussion software I ever came across.
- Akronymus 4y agoI still use a few forums that allow you to quote other messages/parts of it. Funny how I used to be a fan of the branching structure of reddit threads, but now went on to prefer the list of traditional forums with quoting more.
- anigbrowl 4y agoThat's the problem; it's like a book where the footnotes come to outweigh the actual text.
- Jcowell 4y agoHow so? Threaded tweets are given priority over the comments and will show sorting my first in a thread chain. You have to purposely scroll past the thread to see such footnotes. Or do you mean you hate how comments and retweets are more important than the thread itself? In that case that, to me, is just an internet thing. I got one enjoy comments about the material more than the material it self.
- jazzyjackson 4y agoI never figured out how to see the comments on a tweet which was part of a thread, it seemed to just push all the comments down below the thread no matter which tweet I had selected.
- werid 4y agoyou have to select the tweet, then scroll down past the rest of the thread to see replies to that specific tweet. then go back and load next tweet and do the same. the scrolling down in a long thread is maddening