This is my exact take on the whole "town square" concept. It's just fucking stupid. For one a town doesn't have a hundred thousand people let alone a million or

This is my exact take on the whole "town square" concept. It's just fucking stupid. For one a town doesn't have a hundred thousand people let alone a million or hundred million. So a "town square" with even a hundred thousand people is already a broken concept. A real town also doesn't have a hundred cardboard cutouts controlled by marketers, spammers, and spy agencies brigading around purporting to be real people. If Twitter or anyone else wanted to even start pretending to be a "town square" there would be no algorithmic feeds and you'd only ever see posts from your friend list. No one goes to the "town square" to be bombarded with street preachers and guys with trench coats trying to sell you cheap watches. Twitter uses "town square" to evoke images of Mayberry when it more resembles 1970s Times Square.