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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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I was just re-reading your essay on escaped realities, and twitter definitely seems like a crashed reality
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like in some ways the appeal of twitter as an ‘escape’ is that it’s more messy and worse (more real?) than other digitally mediated alternate realities
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Yep... I assume you know we just did the escaping reality refactor camp in LA last weekend? Would have been nice to have you there
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I’m in general very bad at knowing in advance when something good is happening beyond a week in the future, its like the opposite of long term memory loss
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oooh look forward to it, and also looking forward to seeing how living in LA influences your thinking on mediocrity and simulations
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