It’s an odd phenomenon: if I tweet anything even slightly crypto-adjacent, my inbox suddenly overflows with grifters—along with thoughtful, well-intentioned people to be sure, but the grifter quotient is quite noticeable. What produces this effect?
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In general I really like the variability that comes from having a tweet amplified into different communities.
e.g. sometimes I’ll get retweeted into meditation/philosophy spaces and get lots of great responses with a wonderfully different way of seeing the world
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Sometimes Weird Anonymous Twitter will notice something I’ve written, and I’ll get to bear witness to a ton of inscrutable but fascinating conversation reliant on mysterious memes!
(I miss the original Weird Sun Twitter)
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Sometimes I innocently tweet something about note-taking and I get momentarily connected to this unseen universe of puffed-up productivity gurus marketing themsleves with Three Easy Tips.
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e.g. just in the last twenty minutes… why does this happen??
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"Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of Twitter! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!"
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stop asking questions, you’re not supposed to know you’re the star of Truman Show
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I’m not sure how to TLDR this property but “It’s a cult” + Money is involved + “Bots” may give an idea. TBH I would just heavily mute those keywords. I actually got to witness a BSV tech talk at a conference a few years back and it was quite something…
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Can you please share how you write those notes on your site. tiddlywiki seems to be something similar but I can never seem to get the linking right.
Also, thank you for the (how to write better prompts) post. I am slowly changing all my anki prompts.
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It’s a web app I wrote for myself.
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Because people seem to, by the large, respond to economic incentives more than they do the spirit of camaraderie and the prospects of crafting a more usable world for everyone.
Something I've tried before is adding rules to my threads (e.g. User experiences, not Economic models)
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It should be noted, if this has worked for me, it's either because of luck, or because I have a very small following of people who have survived the boredom of my posts.
The real reason "it" happens to you is people want to latch on to your high-value threads :)
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Maybe they’re trying to tell you something. Like that BSV solves your micropayment ‘problem’.
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That's nothing. BSV people are proud of the micropayments(and nanopayments) functionality and get upset when someone says it hasn't been done yet.
Honestly, you got a few replies. Try tweeting something negative about btc and watch 100s of tweets fly in, replete with "hfsp"s.
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I appreciate this response! Helps me sympathize: they think they’ve solved it! I appear dismissive/ignorant. Of course they’d mob!
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