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It's largely replaced Twitter for talking to a lot of my friends. Which is the only reason I ever joined Twitter in the first place - all their Livejournals got
by egypturnash 4y ago
It's largely replaced Twitter for talking to a lot of my friends. Which is the only reason I ever joined Twitter in the first place - all their Livejournals got replaced by these autoposts of cryptic fragments of conversations, and I reluctantly followed them to this annoying world of ultra-short posts that just kept getting shittier and shitter as Twitter kept on trying to make it profitable. And I can preemptively block entire instances full of chuds for myself and everyone else on the instance I run. It's great.
It's nice. It's kinda like the Internet used to be before Endless September started.
I do think it could be a lot better if Eugen would stop trying to make it so much Like Twitter, I upped the post length limit to ~7k and it's fucking wonderful. I can have conversations with my friends. In paragraphs.
- sph 4y agoPlease indulge me: what's wrong with email for talking to your friends? Unless you think your conversations have to be public for everybody else to see.
- egypturnash 4y agoHave you looked at your email inbox lately? Email is full of spam, and business, and businesses I dealt with in the past trying to entice me into giving them more money, and spam filters that can register false positives on stuff I do want to see. A non-profit social media site just has my friends, without any need to regularly spend time keeping up filters.
- arcatech 4y agoPublic conversations is part of the point of social media.