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This is the death of a public space, it's withdrawal. Now this is a dark age technology, a void that information goes into & never comes out of. This is sociall
by rektide 4y ago
This is the death of a public space, it's withdrawal. Now this is a dark age technology, a void that information goes into & never comes out of. This is socially dead technology.
- smoldesu 4y ago"Public space"? It's Twitter, I think you give them too much credit. 12 months ago, clicking on a Twitter link forced you to log-in the moment you interacted with anything on the site, if that's not an information void then I'm not sure what is. To me, Twitter has always been dark-age technology. Syndicating discrete feeds is not rocket science, relying on Twitter as much as we did to provide a supposedly-public space was a huge mistake. > name a better place to see & be seen online. Gmail? IRC? Wix.com? It's crazy, particularly in this site's culture, how many people perceive Twitter as "the world". Just because Oreo and Wendy's have an account there doesn't mean you're addressing everyone. It's an echo chamber, unfortunately one that keeps getting louder and denser as time goes on. Supporting Twitter was never a good idea, under either of their idiot CEOs.
- rektide 4y agoI share much cynicism too, but name a better place to see & be seen online. Having your own fractured tiny little corner in wix or wherever is just so very far away from being in a connected space. It's no compare at all.