increasingly suspecting that context collapse is the internet’s actual worst feature. we just should not have this much access to the conversations of other people. many different conversations need to be had in many different *separate* venues
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i think the problem is lack of agency over flows, not the flows themselves. immersing yourself in overwhelming conversation has its benefits but when its the only option shit gets nasty
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I take your point, though, something like twitter obliterates the contextual information that used to be provided by a subforum or w/e and mostly we haven't replaced it
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Thinking about how we use boundaries in physical space to orient ourselves w/r/t moral/aesthetic/spiritual value, enacting threshold crossings to make things matter more.
Left: chapman on the atomized mode
Right: nick carr on how context collapse leads to “content collapse”
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ooh nice coinage
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too much inferential distance in the public square, "context collapse" in communication. this seems true. but.. sad. walled gardens. bubbles. smaller communities with shared norms are often necessary for productive discussion
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I'm very interested to see how Twitter's imminent groups feature ends up working. I've been thinking for awhile that I don't want to start a new slack for ProjectX, I want a private twitter-shaped context with all of its QT'ing magic.
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🐶🥏 pls give metaparadigmatic pluralistic nontribal affiliations & exponential distributed cognition
🐶🥏 no breakdown of context >:(
🐶🥏 only metaparadigmatic pluralistic nontribal affiliations & exponential distributed cognition >:(
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what does 'exponential' distributed cognition mean?
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Yes, absolutely, but the reality is that we will have even more access. We will have to adapt.
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