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To me you are cool if you consistently add things (to Twitter, or wherever really) that I’m glad I saw, without being self aggrandising, overtly or excessively

To me you are cool if you consistently add things (to Twitter, or wherever really) that I’m glad I saw, without being self aggrandising, overtly or excessively tribal, etc. and without hidden or perversely commercial incentives. I don’t want brands and influencers and celebrities. I don’t care how rich you are or what you’re in charge of. I want novelty, dialogue, curiosity, the odd hidden gem, and an absence of drama. Surprisingly, given what some people would have you believe, I think Twitter delivers this fairly well if not perfectly, if you follow the right people. The right people rarely have/ had blue checks (at least under the old model).

hammyhavoc 3y ago
> I think Twitter delivers this fairly well if not perfectly, if you follow the right people It certainly used to. But post-acquisition has been rough, and a lot of great folks have left. This will inevitably be a demographic thing. Does an exodus of x demographic mean Twitter is "dying"? No. But for me, it's largely no longer relevant to me. Even with 100,000+ tweets since Twitter launched, I never let go of my RSS feeds, and I likely never will. I've very little interest in Mastodon, not because it's not as-good as Twitter, but because it's a Twitter-like without fixing most of what wasn't great about Twitter. Furthermore, most of who and what I'm interested in isn't on Mastodon, and likely never will be. The zeitgeist that birthed Twitter has come and gone, and you can't force it artificially as a mass exodus from one platform to another.