I see this as a failure of the UX of the web that has been exploited most recently by twitter and Facebook.
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People wanted a way to read things their friends wrote. Engineers came up with RSS.. and provided zero UX consideration.
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RSS is so hard to use that it made me feel stupid
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It was hard as a publisher. It barely worked as a subscriber. Remember the "you're publishing your RSS feed wrong" posts?
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the entire story of twitter is "inappropriate for most of what we do but it's where we all are so we adapt" ffs
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also: people RTing the *middle* of threads is a legitimate technique for targeting their followers interests
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like, media should understand the value of this. they're pull quotes.
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I say that as a fan of threads, it just gets hard to follow when you reach full length article territory.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yes. Although, once you hit like, 5,000 words it might be time to blog that shit.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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