VenkatI’m still getting used to one quirk here that you don’t see @ conversations between 2 people you follow by default. You have to click through.
Scott@vgr Same here, and maybe I missed it, but I haven't found anywhere that would indicate there are replies to click through to.
ultimape 🐜💩 ✅@vgr That is one of the bigger features that drew me here. Not having a black box deciding what to show me - it becomes (at least for me) a way to let my interests guide my attention better.
I felt the friction actually meant I wasn't being distracted with noise and made my usage a more active/curiosity feeling vs twitter's passive onslaught.
I've always felt that those conveniences were due to twitter's growth metrics depending on 'engagement', which eventually ended up eroding my filters.
@vgr A lot of my old twitter threads were built specifically under assumption that people clicked on them to see responses and their curiosity would ensnare them a bit.
After that change, it stopped working; instead seemed to bias toward emotional trends - giving someone a euphoric feeling of insight porn. Or to my dismay, baiting with rage and snark.
Epitomie of that affordance is the "Extraordinary" @ reply comment that is trendy among my circles there.
".@" snark weaponized for virality.
Krishna@vgr , that along with it being new and my resistance to play/learn while everyone is watching but are not able to understand the context of expression has stopped me from posting. #sowhat #overcomefears