i've mostly stopped tweeting because my core audience isn't here
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i don't even really mean ideas vs people. i mean the difference between "i wonder if we'll actually go to the moon" and "i'm seeing more and more of the moon uncertainty guys wear brown socks, is that a silicon valley thing"
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combination of feeling out of things to say about ideas (that dont dox me), frustration with spaces where ppl talk about ideas, circumstances also taking me further from such spaces, disillusionment with worthwhileness of talking about ideas, depression
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Maybe the real ideas were the people we met along the way
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Maybe the user interface of a site creates the community and twitter's interface changed too much to support the old community.
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Thread-collapsing means less incentive to write follow-up ideas. 280 chars means less insightful brevity. Inserting liked-tweets into the timeline means we read dumb popular things instead of deep endorsed things. ...
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have noticed this, to a large extent in myself. i don't know how exactly it happened
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I think I was more annoying when I talked more about ideas: argumentative, self-important, abstract in a way that was divorced from concrete things rather than generalizing over them. It's not always fun arguing past strangers while they argue past you.
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Thesublemon blocked me years ago after I got into an argument with Gabe about the causal importance of themes / the potency of thematic reasoning. Now it's like: Themes? What? Why did I even bother talking? That's not worth losing friends over.
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