It’s easy to visit other Twitter neighborhoods by following new people but it’s actually really hard/near impossible to relocate entirely, as in get into reoriented conversation loops. Reply convos feel like being a tourist asking for directions.
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Your Twitter “home” neighborhood is the set of mutuals who have mutually adapted to each other’s presence, whether or not they like each other. Reply conversations end up being almost Turing complete in a tarpit way.
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I’ve moved 22 times in as many years in meatspace but not even once online since social media was invented. Maps get bad really fast as you wander from home ground.
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Interesting. I feel like I have several distinct neighborhoods on Twitter. Genomics. Global health. SV/tech. Bengaluru shit posting. Maybe I'm just lurking (Waldenponding?)
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If you’re not having regular reply conversations with a set of people in a scene you’re just visiting. I visit a lot of places too.
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Having the entire thing depend on the opaque self-interest of the platform rather than exposed tools that people can use to sculpt their own engagement is pretty frustrating. If anything is a risk to the longevity of the platform it is this.



