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Politics aside, Twitter/X has become a bad place to share information on and to link to. It's a bad option from a technical point of view. We can't read a mult
by celsoazevedo 1mo ago
Politics aside, Twitter/X has become a bad place to share information on and to link to. It's a bad option from a technical point of view.
We can't read a multi-part tweet (or follow-ups from the author) or check the latest updates from an official account without an account, which requires a mobile phone number and sometimes extra verifications. A digital "town square" can't require an account and a phone number to read what's said there.
Same with Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Linkdin, etc.
- seahorseemoji 1mo agoI wish I understood why the majority of the AI discussions happen on Twitter/X.
- moomoo11 1mo agowhy not?
- anigbrowl 1mo agoDon't be obtuse. the reasons why not were spelled out in the GP.
- moomoo11 1mo ago[flagged]
- preg_match 1mo agoInertia. Twitter has basically no value, it's just a bad app and bad website. It was never actually "good" for information communication, but it was tolerable. When it comes down to 99% of these "why are people using sucky thing?" questions, the answer is inertia. Never confuse popularity for quality, they're completely orthogonal.
- jesse_dot_id 1mo agoA lot of crypto bro grifter crossover in AI.
- nlitened 1mo agoNetwork effect. Most people worth discussing with are already there, so more people join the discussion there, and so on.
- chii 1mo agobut it's a really shallow form of discussion, as most tweets are the equivalent of short-form videos of tiktoks.
- nlitened 1mo agoI think Pareto principle applies here: most discussions will be shallow, only occasionally diving deep — and Twitter acknowledges that reality, and builds around it.
- hparadiz 1mo agoThe real problem is that places like HN and Reddit allow downvotes / reports to drown people out. Someone on Twitter will post on their page. They control it. It can be slop. It can be low quality. It can be their random thoughts but all that is irrelevant while you slowly build up your audience and the stuff you wanna work on. This generally takes time and is something that grows organically. Meanwhile on HN I will regularly see posts "flagged" where the account didn't actually say anything bad or against the rules. It just goes against the group think and it doesn't even take that much. It can be 1 or 2 people flagging your post and then suddenly it's hidden. This simply does not happen on Twitter. So eventually people stop posting. I stopped posting on Reddit entirely for example even though I had dozens of very highly upvoted technical posts mainly because I would regularly see highly inaccurate information get upvoted while the real accurate information is downvoted. HN has the same problem with Elon Musk overall and SpaceX / Twitter. On Twitter there is a highly active community of space enthusiasts. Absolutely none of them would post slop like "Elon is not an engineer" but on HN that is what passes for discourse. I mean at least they tell on themselves but I would prefer a technical forum have actually smart people in it. Not just larpers. I just can't take this discourse seriously.
- redox99 1mo agoBecause obviously everyone who participates in a discussion has an account, so they don't feel this annoyance other than maybe when sharing a link to someone else.
- anigbrowl 1mo agoRead Social and Economic Networks by Michael O Jackson.
- itomato 1mo agoTells me how valuable they actually are.
- deleted 1mo ago[deleted]
- ChrisRR 1mo agoI don't think anything on twitter can really be called a discussion. The UI is designed for shouting into the void, anything else is an afterthought