After sleeping on it, I've concluded that only basis for Twitteroconomy is likes/RTs/@ replies/DMs. But not explicit credits (doom of Quora)
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You would need to create artificially scarce currency like "5 likes = 3 RT = 1 @ reply" but WITHOUT explicit credit schemes. Why and how?
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Why: Goodhart's law, Graeber's arguments against impersonal currencies, known unsocial behavior of things like loyalty points/freq flyer pts
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so performative speech instead of descriptive speech to give the utterances weight and grounding, get away from economic cheap talk
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something like that, but as side effect, not main intent. Main intent is to make current value of Twitter at least sustainable.
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