Imagine how much better twitter would be if *no one* had trends. Yea you can locally turn it off but everyone else is responding to those cues so no you actually can’t.https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1203299829343932417 …
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Replying to @generativist
I thought so too, but now I think Twitter would be substantially worse without "trends". Collectively witnessing things makes people form bonds. These types of things become part of people's cultural history, and these get reused later (eg: feral hogs jokes between friends)
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Replying to @IgorBrigadir
I think they would still occur in dense cliques a lot more organically. And I do think you’re right that the shared context is useful in general. My problem is mostly the degree — so much constant and intense synchronization.
8:37 AM - 7 Dec 2019
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