is this the place for tiny homeless stories @cogdog?
After work we went to the beach to cool off, and because of a big rip retreated to the ocean pool also filled with big waves. We were joined by a teenage boy, maybe 16, barking like a seal and growling with joy, while his parents watched carefully and closely from the sand.
He was revelling in the wild surf just the same as us, deeply. #mycommunity
@katebowles To me, Kate, stories are things that can reside in any space, so why not?
When twitter emerged, while it had vestigial features of other platforms, it was to me on an empty plain of expectations.
This is more obviously a derivative, so it brings in a pile expectations / hopes (hence trying to "figure it out"). Not that one is better, but it changes the flavor of entering new space.
@cogdog Yes, this is the obvious design nudge--responding to the idea that Twitter is structurally good but socially broken by the way things turned out; and FB is ...
My hunch is that there is human energy solving the software problems because a whole lot of other people want roughly the same things that our motley band of travellers want. Their values become very significant. And such a relief after the Silicon Valley celebrity of big platform founders.
Kate
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