stephanie

By mixing these people, Twitter becomes a check, however small, on ideological thinking. It also offers you the chance to befriend those who are doing, living and flourishing. It is the easiest way to publicly think and do, and by these acts, perhaps you will find your people.

I once wrote that "I don't think even @jack fully appreciates the nature of the thing he has built. He is still concerned with just who should be promoted, or who might best be an arbiter of truth or content, over other ways of organizing the platform. [cont]

I understand why some people welcome the feature. Plenty of people today gave compelling reasons to want to reduce the public nuisance burden. But we are witnessing the very slow closing of a large door. This isn't the first new feature modulating replies & it won't be the last.

I hope Twitter seriously considers what they are doing, but I think it will be easy to pass over this quickly. Less nuisance, happy celebrities, maybe engagement even stay the same. What we lose is much more subtle.

How many of you do I follow because of some comment on a public voice? How many others have you found this way? How many brilliant people sit a while on the shore of nothingness, because they have no popular friends to retweet them, then decide Twitter isn't worth it?

It sucks to be a person continuously dogged by crappy people on this site. I know it happens. But it also sucks to be a strange weirdo with no friends and no way to find your people. Twitter is a great platform but discoverability is very, very low. Now its a little lower.

tbh i am fairly confident that for those legitimately looking to discuss new ideas, larger accounts in this area will keep the gates open as much as possible, and those that won't — their replies probably weren't spaces where the people you talk about would flourish anyways