The X-Factor on Twitter is that the desperate addicts using it even as it enters its zombie state seem to have media jobs and politicians overrepresented in their ranks. So while Neopets and Gaia Online get to be filled with a dwindling user-base of neurotic millennials, Twitter gets to have a dwindling user-base of neurotic millennials with political power and control over our collective sense-making apparatuses.
glad you didn't post that ai trash about my hero academia. my older kid (just turned 13) is all caught up on the manga and my younger kid (10) and i are both on team #bakudeku
I thought your Twitter entry was the best thing I've read from garbage day so far. ( and you've written a lot of good stuff too!) The analysis on how the platforms operate, the siloing, and reddit and I just loved the line: "twitter has never been able to deal with the fact its users both hate using it and also hate each other. "
I'm not surprised by the analogy of crypto to web 1.0 but I think that web 1.0 s potential was way more obvious to everyone than web 3 and the crypto movement. The potential utility of decentralized currency always feels like it'd get bodied if sat Amazon or Ali baba ever just made their own PayPal but for buying drugs.
The headline and kicker on the Tumblr section were top notch.
"Giving users the ability to limit or turn off replies, but also releasing a quote-tweet option is probably the most outrageous product decision I’ve ever seen in my life."
idk, if some celebrity releases some fake apology tweet, I would go furious if a platform greatly prevented me from easily parodying or making jokes about it. But I don't necessarily want the celebrity to see it, or feel like even more shit, that shouldn't be in the replies of it, and the celebrity should be able to control what's attached to their content
The X-Factor on Twitter is that the desperate addicts using it even as it enters its zombie state seem to have media jobs and politicians overrepresented in their ranks. So while Neopets and Gaia Online get to be filled with a dwindling user-base of neurotic millennials, Twitter gets to have a dwindling user-base of neurotic millennials with political power and control over our collective sense-making apparatuses.
glad you didn't post that ai trash about my hero academia. my older kid (just turned 13) is all caught up on the manga and my younger kid (10) and i are both on team #bakudeku
I thought your Twitter entry was the best thing I've read from garbage day so far. ( and you've written a lot of good stuff too!) The analysis on how the platforms operate, the siloing, and reddit and I just loved the line: "twitter has never been able to deal with the fact its users both hate using it and also hate each other. "
I'm not surprised by the analogy of crypto to web 1.0 but I think that web 1.0 s potential was way more obvious to everyone than web 3 and the crypto movement. The potential utility of decentralized currency always feels like it'd get bodied if sat Amazon or Ali baba ever just made their own PayPal but for buying drugs.
The headline and kicker on the Tumblr section were top notch.
"Giving users the ability to limit or turn off replies, but also releasing a quote-tweet option is probably the most outrageous product decision I’ve ever seen in my life."
idk, if some celebrity releases some fake apology tweet, I would go furious if a platform greatly prevented me from easily parodying or making jokes about it. But I don't necessarily want the celebrity to see it, or feel like even more shit, that shouldn't be in the replies of it, and the celebrity should be able to control what's attached to their content