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You're benefiting from a massive open, unpartitioned platform (meaning, anyone can join and form communities/reply-to tweets, without isolating things to friend
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
You're benefiting from a massive open, unpartitioned platform (meaning, anyone can join and form communities/reply-to tweets, without isolating things to friend-groups or creating 'subreddits' with human moderators gatekeeping them). The platform gives you unprecedented global reach, and most amazingly: it's still functional and hasn't been drowned in spam. I think people need to take a breath and realize that this is an incredible technical accomplishment in 2022 (or 2015, 2009, 2001) given the ambient noise level of the Internet. You are not going to keep a platform like this readable and still be able to apply loving, artisanal human decision-making to it: there aren't enough human beings in the world.
If you start a new account that behaves like spam, there's a good chance that you'll get treated like spam -- and that's probably an acceptable tradeoff because the alternative is no working platform at all.