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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If I remember, it merged seamlessly hosted conversations and more established RSS content.
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I suspect the most important is that the creators (Paul Bucheit, Bret Taylor et al) were highly active users who understood their own site. Not true of Twitter or Facebook AFAICT. It meant lots of features of FF seemed tuned really well.
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Eg all the character limits were just right - enough for nuanched, thoughtful discussion. Certain kinds of threading was designed in from the start. So was federation (of blog content, delicious, flickr, and other sources).
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