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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> “Worse is better” for social dynamics.
This is possibly the most depressing phrase I've heard this week.
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Maybe it's neutral news?
On some level, the concept offends me.
On another level, I appreciate the virtues of capitalism _because_ it accounts for human self-interest.
Better to engineer for evil than assume users are frictionless spheres, but make something good, please!
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