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> It's like there's fire in the house and all of us are discussing how to improve fire extinguisher design. It's more like there's a problem with a new technol
by staunch 4y ago
> It's like there's fire in the house and all of us are discussing how to improve fire extinguisher design.
It's more like there's a problem with a new technology and people are discussing how to improve the technology.
Twitter is just a technology product that some few people created a few years ago. It's not a discovery like fire where we have to learn to adapt to its nature. We can change its nature radically.
Of course there are social problems that won't be resolved by technology but there's no reason to believe this is one of them. Twitter is a technology that created and exacerbated specific social problems. It's entirely plausible that it can be improved to eliminate and mitigate these same problems.