I wonder if there is something halfway between Twitter and email. I don't know what that would even look like, but there may be; I suspect only a small part of the space of possibilities for forums has been explored.
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Simultaneously having a reasonable conversation with Saikat Chakrabarti by email while a series of angry people (presumably less informed than him about Ocasio-Cortez's policy) call me names on Twitter makes it clear how useless Twitter is for talking about anything complicated.
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The sheer variety of suggestions here show just how little of that space has been explored. Possibly the answer is a meta-solution: a service whose explicit policy is to experiment and evolve rapidly, in contrast to the extreme conservatism of Twitter.
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How are FAANGs killing innovation?
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No one has come up with a better way to discuss complex topics online besides op-eds and op-eds responding to op-eds. Sub in Medium depending on the author.
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Think of it as a conversation that functions as a real-time polling device. You don't talk to everyone. You talk to those you're interested in having the discussion with, but the others give you a gauge on many things: Level of support, misconceptions, level of polarization, etc.
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Hard to have a productive conversation when you start a thread by strawmaning
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Recently experimenting with low blocking threshold to focus the convo (and reset block list every 3-4 months). Work theory: "complicated convo" on Twitter requires tuning like a radio frequency to find readers who accept, while "interestingly disagreeing", of the opposite view.
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