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.
@bellesapepper_37 My condemnation of Twitter/FB "walled gardens" is less about the medium itself and more about how they've evolved (which is predictable since they're for-profit companies).
Like, FB and Twitter were absolutely good websites once upon a time. But algorithms, mismanagement, and poor moderation policy have made both places toxic and awful.
Now, a marginalized voice can be heard on Twitter, but it'll be dogpiled by extremist voices since the site's been leveraged more in favor of bad actors.
@bellesapepper_37 I didn't see it that way. Gives me a lot to think about; thank you.
What would you suggest people do? Advocate for a new central platform? Try to reform Twitter?
@bellesapepper_37 I'm in a state full of sundown towns. Well aware, despite not being on the receiving end of bigotry.
I think this is actually a good idea; don't abandon Twitter, and even if you don't like it, cultivate your feed to include marginalized voices and throw out retweets with abandon, just to signal-boost those who need it. Maybe not everyone has time to do that, but I probably do.
@chrisabides Thanks, and thank you for the follow back.
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Christopher
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