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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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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Replying to @paulg
Allowing, 'In Network' only responses for a thread ? 'Out Network' handles can send a request to participate in the conversation at the discretion of original poster / vote based consensus among participants !
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Replying to @_placehold
Possibly something like that. That's how conversations work at a party.
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