I view the comments as a mis-targeted criticism of the poor accessibility and content lock-in of these platforms. I, too, find long twitter threads largely unr

I view the comments as a mis-targeted criticism of the poor accessibility and content lock-in of these platforms. I, too, find long twitter threads largely unreadable, because of how distracting it is to have after each post the retweet and reply counts, timestamp, another the user's avatar, and sometimes ads. I can't blame the author, because twitter obviously works for them as an easy platform to post from. But the fact that I have no other means to access their content makes it inaccessible. I used to be able to use Nitter, but that's gone now. And that's OK. There are also large portions of this city that probably have all sorts of interesting and great people that I'll never meet, because I don't tend to frequent some places. I can't read all the content on the Internet; platform-based elimination saves me a lot of time. Most of the time, I have noticed that platform quality correlates with content quality, and the things I can read only after dismissing a cookie banner, followed by a newsletter pitch, followed by a registration proposal, were not worth my time to begin with. On the rare occasion it sounds like I really want to read it, I use a helpful service such as archive.is. But most of the time, I just close the Tab, thank the platform for saving me some reading time, and move on.