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With few exceptions (shared corp accounts like apple's) 50 posts should just be the hardcap overall. You don't have 200 good insights per day that the world ab

by Havoc 6mo ago

With few exceptions (shared corp accounts like apple's) 50 posts should just be the hardcap overall. You don't have 200 good insights per day that the world absolutely needs to hear...

dgellow 6mo ago
It’s really sad that microblogging evolved to become „I share a message expected to reach as far as possible“. The interesting about microblogging was the small scale imho, you have a few friends you’re sharing content with. Yes it is public but you don’t expect your posts to be seen by everyone. That has completely been lost
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- QuercusMax 6mo ago
  You seem to think "micro" refers to the audience, not the content. Assuming the historical context at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging is accurate, it's not clear that it ever was meant to have a limited audience. What you're describing is more akin to what MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, etc were like back in the day, which is quite a different thing than tumblr or twitter.
  - dgellow 6mo ago
    No what I’m describing is the experience of microblogging when it was a thing. You were sharing short status updates and thoughts mostly for your friends and niche of interests. Which is why people didn’t have much problems sharing personal things, your expectations regarding who will read your posts were mostly around people you know IRL or online. That of course changed a lot once it became about engagement and monetizing an audience. I would watch a movie, think of something about it, share it, and the expectations wasn’t „I want the world to know what my thoughts on movie X are“. It was „I think friend Y will like that, will be fun to discuss when I see them next time“. But yes there is some sort of overlap with how people were using Facebook and others. I personally think the retweet feature is one of the worst thing ever invented in the social media space exactly because it goes against the audience expectations of the author

by Havoc 6mo ago

With few exceptions (shared corp accounts like apple's) 50 posts should just be the hardcap overall. You don't have 200 good insights per day that the world absolutely needs to hear...

dgellow 6mo ago

It’s really sad that microblogging evolved to become „I share a message expected to reach as far as possible“. The interesting about microblogging was the small scale imho, you have a few friends you’re sharing content with. Yes it is public but you don’t expect your posts to be seen by everyone. That has completely been lost

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QuercusMax 6mo ago
You seem to think "micro" refers to the audience, not the content. Assuming the historical context at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging is accurate, it's not clear that it ever was meant to have a limited audience. What you're describing is more akin to what MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, etc were like back in the day, which is quite a different thing than tumblr or twitter.
- dgellow 6mo ago
  No what I’m describing is the experience of microblogging when it was a thing. You were sharing short status updates and thoughts mostly for your friends and niche of interests. Which is why people didn’t have much problems sharing personal things, your expectations regarding who will read your posts were mostly around people you know IRL or online. That of course changed a lot once it became about engagement and monetizing an audience. I would watch a movie, think of something about it, share it, and the expectations wasn’t „I want the world to know what my thoughts on movie X are“. It was „I think friend Y will like that, will be fun to discuss when I see them next time“. But yes there is some sort of overlap with how people were using Facebook and others. I personally think the retweet feature is one of the worst thing ever invented in the social media space exactly because it goes against the audience expectations of the author