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Twitter became the defacto public square, so it's understandable that there's inertia for society to keep visiting. This particular public square has been boug

Twitter became the defacto public square, so it's understandable that there's inertia for society to keep visiting. This particular public square has been bought and fenced off. Ostensibly this is to drive more traffic to it. Passively standing outside the fence trying to peek in is a lost cause. Find a new public square and convince as many people as you can to move. To do that, engage with those who moved, and create compelling reasons to go to the new public square.

niggerman5000 3y ago
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klabb3 3y ago
> Find a new public square and convince as many people as you can to move. In particular, complain loudly to your local governments etc that (still) use Twitter for “quickly reaching the public” or whatever their remaining excuse may be, especially if that information isn’t accessible elsewhere. The public square rhetoric was always a red herring. A distraction to fool people, including yours truly, although it’s been years since the illusion came falling down. There is still a need for public spaces. I just don’t have any hopes about ad-tech corporations any more.
godelski 3y ago
> Twitter became the defacto public square I think people often miss this about social media. Private spaces can become public spaces. The same way you can lose a trademark if your product becomes associated with the general thing (which is why OpenAI failed to get a trademark). In a way too much success is limiting to the company's power, but that's probably a feature and not a bug in terms of protecting the public. It's not like it is easy to navigate away from Twitter or any other major platform. Unlike traditional products you can't simply choose Pepsi if you are upset with Coke, or vise versa, because the product's utility (and product) is it's network. It also makes it very difficult to compete against as you can make an infinitely better UI/UX but if no one is on it you are missing the key product. So you only move to a ghost town in hopes that others will follow but if that doesn't happen quickly then it'll remain a ghost town.

niggerman5000 3y ago

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klabb3 3y ago

> Find a new public square and convince as many people as you can to move. In particular, complain loudly to your local governments etc that (still) use Twitter for “quickly reaching the public” or whatever their remaining excuse may be, especially if that information isn’t accessible elsewhere. The public square rhetoric was always a red herring. A distraction to fool people, including yours truly, although it’s been years since the illusion came falling down. There is still a need for public spaces. I just don’t have any hopes about ad-tech corporations any more.

godelski 3y ago

> Twitter became the defacto public square I think people often miss this about social media. Private spaces can become public spaces. The same way you can lose a trademark if your product becomes associated with the general thing (which is why OpenAI failed to get a trademark). In a way too much success is limiting to the company's power, but that's probably a feature and not a bug in terms of protecting the public. It's not like it is easy to navigate away from Twitter or any other major platform. Unlike traditional products you can't simply choose Pepsi if you are upset with Coke, or vise versa, because the product's utility (and product) is it's network. It also makes it very difficult to compete against as you can make an infinitely better UI/UX but if no one is on it you are missing the key product. So you only move to a ghost town in hopes that others will follow but if that doesn't happen quickly then it'll remain a ghost town.