Erin KissaneJan 23, 2025

@jnl Yeaaaah. This stuff is so complicated because the networks each have different potholes and missing stairs, but more followers who aren't actually interested in Your Thing seems to be to be a near-universally bad experience for people who try to be human online.

A few hundred to a few thousand people working on the same kinds of things or cross-pollinating ideas in a generative way is extremely good! More is…usually not, but a lot depends on the acceleration mechanisms.

Show threadKevin Marks
@kissane @jnl one of the big structural failures of pre-X Twitter was the presumption that fame was a function of the person and not the post. They built special features and filtering for blue ticks but not for the person whose post took off that day and was drowning in notifications.
This persisted even after the weaponised repost and harassment tooling of gamergate. I wrote about it back then https://www.kevinmarks.com/twitterhatespeech.html
How did Twitter become the hate speech wing of the free speech party?

Jan 26, 2025 at 10:00amWeb