I've been tempted by the idea of writing only inside walled gardens, with vetted readership, and in practice have been doing that to some extent (email, slack, 1:1s...), but there is no way to gate keep at scale. If you attract > ~100 readers, at least 1-2 will be taxing jerks
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The bigger problem is that any audience gatekeeping mechanism that keeps out exhausting, taxing jerks will also keep out new interesting people and opportunities as well as people who genuinely need/benefit from stuff being public.
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Writing in public has been a part of my identity for so long though (first paid for a piece of writing in like 1988 for a high school essay contest, so 30y ago) that the idea of giving it up or boxing in/limiting that side of my life feels very strange and ghostly.
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Twitter is a better place with you in it. What’s your breakdown between here and mastodon? Personally, I think the future is over there. Maybe the best of both world?
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Twitter is easy because it’s harder to go wrong in 280c
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Oh, definitely a big point for friction for me.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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