Casey NewtonI wrote about how Reddit’s years of making users responsible for content creation, moderation, and product development came back to haunt it today. https://www.platformer.news/p/reddit-goes-dark
Bob Starr@caseynewton Absolutely accurate. The irony for me is I would often tell people Twitter needed to be more like Reddit in the way you spoke about moderation. If it could distill users into like-minded silos, as Reddit mostly did, there would be less chaotic broadcasting across the entire platform. What I never anticipated was how something as basic as API rules would destroy both.
@bobstarr @caseynewton Very little serendipity with silos.
@irizoris @caseynewton I get that, and you're right. A more open community would allow for random encounters. I just think the silos help mitigate some of the unruliness. Well, that and mods, which Twitter also lacked.
@bobstarr @caseynewton I've been on Twitter since January 2009, hovering around 1000ish followees and followers for the past few years. I tend to communicate with literary scholars, the eel historian, local gov in Nashville where I live, enjoyed Bronx Zoo Cobra back in the day as well as that Icelandic volcano years ago, medieval manuscript manicules in marginalia... It's a very different, much more enjoyable experience if you're not a journalist and under the radar. Zero unruliness for me, even now. I got a job in a Berlin bookstore thanks to a Twitter followee in 2011 and was recently recruited to Nashville's Vision Zero committee via other pedestrian advocates... Here too on Mastodon, I value the serendipity. Not sure how I do it but I like it. Oh, I also reread my tweets and delete a bunch almost daily if I no longer want them in public.