Michael Koziarski@kb I’m old enough to remember when they put that in and people started #fixreplies 🤣
¡ɜɿoɾɪɹℲ 🌯@nuthatch reminds me of twitter before the change that triggered #fixreplies
Mark Veldhuis 
Manu@dewey I found that browsing the local timeline of smaller and more specialized instances often lets me discover interesting content.
As much as I will forever hate any algorithmic timelines everywhere, I don't disagree with your "best way to discover new content on Twitter" statement – but the "on Twitter" part is important here. I don't think Twitter was ever actually good at discovery (after #fixreplies). It started being good at "engagement", which I'm not sure I need more of in my life.
external quantum efficiency@bastianallgeier I remember when twitter changed replies -- before, me following @ foo meant that I saw everything that foo posted, reply or not. At the beginning there wasn't a thread structure at all, just a stream of unconnected tweets!
Then twitter made it so if you clicked reply to a specific tweet, it was linked in (you could have a thread), and then twitter made it so if foo replied to a tweet by baz, *I DIDN'T SEE IT IN MY TIMELINE* **GASP** -- I could still read the thread, but I didn't see the reply tweet by default.
Folks were *pissed* about this change and missing updates to the discussion.
We even had a revolt, people petitioning to #fixreplies to put the behavior back to the old way.
Which led to the tagline a few years later,
"Remember #fixreplies? We were such dorks back then."
very spooky handle 🎏
Lord Guysbert de Fieri 
The only feature Twitter has which I really wish mastodon did too is the nifty embedded quoted tweet thing.
It's the one and only feature change Twitter did since the #fixreplies thing that I actually liked.