ChristopherNov 6, 2022

Lotta talk about replacing Twitter.

The better dialogue is how to get people to re-evaluate how they engage with the internet.

Personally, I'm convinced of two things:

- You can't 1:1 replace Twitter unless it's a similar top-down walled garden.

- Most people probably shouldn't want a Twitter replacement, since Twitter is bad for us.

Instead of finding/molding/creating a replacement, we should encourage people (and ourselves!) to focus on what they like most about internet interaction.

Show threadDaniel SohlNov 6, 2022
@chrisabides I think the most crucial part is “interaction”. Too much of Twitter was shouting anger into the void, not trying to engage with people in an intellectually honest way. (I was not entirely innocent of this myself… not often, but it happened.) So how do we really foster honest interaction in any system?
Show threadChristopher

@dcsohl On a mass scale I don't think we know yet.

Smaller communities are always better in regards to quality interaction. Look at Reddit; huge subreddits are cesspools, but the smaller ones get better moderation, less spam, etc. So many people don't know or see this (and why would they; so many people's only interaction with the internet is just the major sites, they never learned to branch out or explore since they never had to).

Nov 6, 2022 at 4:40pmWeb