The only feature that matters for any social media experience is the people who are on it. I'm amazed at how many technology leaders forget this and get distracted by the underlying tech, protocols, features, etc.

Elon is a great example. He thinks he bought a platform. But what he really bought was a community. And of the two, the community has degraded far more than the platform.

@mike Agree totally, in fact I said a v similar thing to someone yesterday 👇. It's the people and content that really matter far more than the tech, features etc... as long as they have basic functionality
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Elk is great. Quite how fun a platform is surely is far more dependent on the people or content. As long as you can more or less follow people, read their messages and post / reply, then the rest is down to what's on the platform, personally. Personally, serious / interesting discussions > frivolous fun stuff, but maybe i'm boring!

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