all the people i followed because they talked about ideas now seem to talk only about people. what's with that
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
Maybe the user interface of a site creates the community and twitter's interface changed too much to support the old community.
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Replying to @preinfarction @VesselOfSpirit
Thread-collapsing means less incentive to write follow-up ideas. 280 chars means less insightful brevity. Inserting liked-tweets into the timeline means we read dumb popular things instead of deep endorsed things. ...
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Images and videos mean less plain-text culture. Twitter embedding the text of a linked tweet means people don't see the context of the thread. Showing the timeline out of chronological order incentivizes writing ideas that don't have sequential rhetorical dependence.
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Replying to @preinfarction @VesselOfSpirit
I don't know what effect Round Avatars had the discourse (I think it was probably introduced to reduce people doing few-pixel realignments of their avatars), but they're a pretty big insult to people from my original twitter culture (people with a spiritual belief in rectangles).
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I often can't find my own tweets on my timeline after I post them. I think that incentivizes people to write lower-quality things. It's easier to shitpost if you don't see it again - if your nose doesn't get rubbed in it.
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