Hot take: Everyone (including me) wants to preserve the 1-to-very-many ephemeral and viral broadcast capacity of mediums like twitter. But, we also want to filter out the sensationalism, abuse, and attention hijacking. This may not be possible.
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Related Hot Take: Interacting with a >=1 million follower account is not a social experience. It's entertainment, press release ingestion, or mass media consumption. We just get confused because we mix it up with the social interactions on this website.
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But, an account that can fan out a million messages a pop (even if its not implemented that way), induces gross distortions in the fabric of attention on *social* media. One of which is they become visible Schelling points and collision spaces for different groups.
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