All attempts at a [socially] better twitter are doomed because we’re actually here for the worse. “Worse is better” for social dynamics.
The only way to unseat Twitter is to create a genuine technical differentiation (which mastodon almost did with federation).
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If your product is based on appealing to “better” natures of people along a dimension (say civility, intelligence) you’ll attract virtue signaling clueless types along that dimension, adversely select for hypocrites along that dimension, or outright bad actors good at faking it.
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For those in the cheap seats unfamiliar with the “worse is better” concept
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Hmm. Yet more fodder for #mediocrity here. I’m definitely the most mediocre champion of mediocrity, unlike that guy who ironically wrote a reportedly excellent book about it.
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Aside, as you might guess, I vastly prefer inhabiting environments designed with average humans, rather than virtuous ones, in mind. Environments of exaltation: temples, churches, better-twitter type concepts, etc leave me cold. They’re religious spaces with sacred architecture.
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