> Also notable that twitter, specifically, is overwhelmingly signalling to the crowd. I think this has been true for a long time, but it does feel that it is mo

> Also notable that twitter, specifically, is overwhelmingly signalling to the crowd. I think this has been true for a long time, but it does feel that it is more extreme now. There is an interesting positive feedback loop: 1. Some people's messages are intended to be in-group signals and others' are not. 2. Because of the former, people sometimes intepret the latter as implicitly signally membership in the opposing group. 3. Once people start making that interpretation, they start using that deliberately, so now messages that don't look like group signals do look like group signals for the other group. Eventually, the result is that nearly all messages are tribal markers and it's nearly impossible to say anything that isn't just a shibboleth.