I wonder if the bottomless, swirling meanness of twitter is partially the result of pressure to de-tool tribal "bubbles." We used to be able to share and upload our friends' block lists, for example
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Some years ago, just about everyone (myself included) was concerned that too many walled gardens on platforms like twitter would further erode a shared perception of reality necessary for cooperation en masse. We imagined that accessibility to one another would encourage niceness
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By the time someone complained *to my employer* that *a bot I had written* had retweeted something racist, I had begun to see that this heterogenous experimental utopia may actually be a fucking trashfire
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I don't think that twitter is the problem — or, more precisely, I think twitter is an instantiation of a technology we won't be reboxing, and shouldn't abandon even if we could. I do think we *need* to have more tools to protect ourselves from mobs that can coalesce within hours.
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help me spread the word, masonhttps://twitter.com/illiteralworst/status/1207326775669227520 …
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I think it’s working just growing pains. We can’t stay in caves or under rocks for the rest of eternity. Software will be the solution, for example you can choose between ads or not, soon it’ll be software helping us to focus or help us be less outraged at the world’s woes
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Good point.
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"Meanwhile, the poor babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."pic.twitter.com/6IpkKG7neR
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I think one of the big problems is that, when you get deep enough into any particular subject, words begin changing meanings. Take for example "racism" which has fairly different meanings to the Left and Right. Or "God", which might mean "a bearded man in the sky" to some people,
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I've been wondering recently if
@Twitter is trying to find ways to allow for the one-garden approach while trying to maximize productive encounters. Given all the ways we all interact on here, how can one cheaply measure "bridge-builder" accounts or... (1/2) -
"tribeless" individuals as
@visakanv might refer to them and prop them up so more individuals might see them appear in their feed, hopefully allowing for more cross pollination between cultural bubbles (2/2)
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