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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Sep 2019
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    Do you have any “1 person twitter” relationships, where you’re not in a work/personal relationship, and not even deep friends per se, but you use each other as a think-out-loud reaction buffer for thoughts on a specific topic? I have a few, but not super active. Often on DMs.

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    • Olaf huan seoul oh Spectology: SF Book Club Podcast Stefan Rotenberg Jason ryan Sarah AlSaleh danthedecentralist Emortal 🐙
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Sep 2019
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        Test: both of you have a different set of personal friends for just hanging out in good company. A 1PT is a passive, background-thinking relationship with someone whose better to think out loud with on some topics than hivemind twitter.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Sep 2019
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        It’s quite rare. Beating a good, well-curated hive-mind twitter on any topic, even a pretty specialized one, is hard. I think of it more like a lazy 1-entry twitter list that is also a dm channel.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Sep 2019
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        I wish I knew how to do this better. It’s the conversational equivalent of blogchains. Works best with just 1 other person. Max 7-8. Back in the day I used to have dozens of email threads like this, but email gets unwieldy fast as you go many kevels of nested responses deep.

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Sep 2019
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        Key difference from just a generic slack channel or dm thread is that it has a specific theme, even if loose and messy. It does not wander out of scope too easily.

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      6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Sep 2019
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        This is unstable though. It either breaks down as you exhaust each other’s depth on a theme and start derping at each other, or it broadens into a generic hangout friendship that’s not actively processing an information stream. You can switch themes but that’s been rare for me.

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      2. elliot‏ @elmkast 21 Sep 2019
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        i feel like this characterizes the small but active circle on mastodon!

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Sep 2019
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        Replying to @elmkast

        Glad to hear it, that was kinda the intent there... but this is even narrower than that

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      1. Amalgamated Tsundoku Psychohazard‏ @enkiv2 21 Sep 2019
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        this is all i use twitter for

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      1. Noah Rosenberg‏ @nrose 22 Sep 2019
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        @jimmygunawanapp is amazing for this

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      1. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 22 Sep 2019
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        Not really. It sounds nice, but I'm new to being actually present on Twitter, so none of my connections here are that intimate.

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