I strongly suspect there are “Twitter homeless” who have the same problem of social isolation, no online home, mental illness risks. Reliant entirely on impersonal algorithmic curation for their feed, visible as noise but not as humans to the connected, easily mistaken for bots.
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I think online homelessness is going to be as severe a problem as offline in the future, as more online life gets “urbanized” on the larger platforms.
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Crypto twitter has a particularly high incidence of Twitter homelessness. Even after you eliminate the obvious pumping bots and sketchy PR flacks, you’re left with a lot of lonely people trying to connect over some shitcoin social object.
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You don’t have one, at least not right now
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Or, people who have too many bumper stickers on their cars. Signifiers of identity that negatively correlate w one's sense of self and don't actually enable connection or persuasion.
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Except for actual houseless ppl that have thrived from POV of propagation; due to their escape from the increasingly captive quality of late capitalist homesteading. Irl bemuses us often confusion illusion we’re included creates in other. Hell breaks loose when we lose anonymity.
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