what I love about Twitter is the ways in which it is a solution to the shortcomings of flesh-based interaction
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I think that's the best way I can put it. It's no substitute, of course, but IRL interaction fails a lot of people in many different ways. Something something the body is a crude limitation, maybe
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and the freedom that Twitter represents helps you interact more freely, to make friends and to love. It just gives you more options and some people dearly need those
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In this line of thought it's useful to imagine IRL connections as optimized for Storge, Pragma and Eros; but Twitter, because of its un-physically-limited nature helps me with Philia and Agape (and even Ludus and Philautia, if I make an effort to fulfil those needs here.)pic.twitter.com/9pFQN1Y3sq
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maybe this just holds true for internet communication in general. Like via forum-based internet communities like reddit, or group-chat social media like Discord, but I find each of those mediums to be too rigid in those structures for my use. I value a little flexibility.
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I think Tumblr is the most like Twitter, but more pictorially-focused, and I'm more of a text kinda person.
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The way this app optimizes for idea-based communication at the individual level is what I'm here for
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कडू af Retweeted Dr Effie Le Moignan
it's something I don't have enough of IRL so yeah I'm very glad for it. And for all of y'all too. Came across this tweet in
@generativist's replies that described this feeling very well:https://twitter.com/Effie_lm/status/1260308334319677441 …कडू af added,
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Replying to @zooweeeeee @generativist
Oh now we've gone all Trent Reznor and we're having a copy of a copy of a copy because I came back on my own timeline as a retweet of a retweet of a thread.
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