When attention is very scarce, and you have some discretionary ability to boost signals, any act of public curiosity becomes a political act. Whatever the content of your opinion on X, simply being publicly curious about X (minimum=liking a tweet) sends a message.
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The “fiat news” concept from
@Aelkus is useful here. It’s a billion channel universe and you have some ability to mint fiat news whether you are aware of it or not, so be mindful what you boost.Show this thread -
I have always tended to self-censor public curiosity to things I think will harmoniously interest others in that space. This is from before I had any sort of platform. I suspect this is a basic personality trait. I just don’t like making a scene. I take all conflict offline.
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Agree! Best Twitter users have signal and meta-signal. Meta-signal attracts signal: if user (like
@pmarca before he went dark) regularly RTs quality, people try to put signal in front of them in hope for a boost. Can be a virtuous cycle for enhancing booster's meta-signal.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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