VenkatJun 14, 2018
I’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.
Show threadultimape 🐜💩 ✅Jun 14, 2018

@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.

Show threadultimape 🐜💩 ✅

@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.

Jun 14, 2018 at 5:00pmWeb