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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Don't get me wrong, I hope it is and I'm working on that problem now! But, I'm starting to get the impression that at the limit of what's possible given most mediums' social architectures as they are now, substantial reductions come with some pretty ugly side-effects.
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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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