{"id":251,"date":"2022-04-29T15:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memora8ilia.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/29\/some-people-need-to-lighten-up-its-twitter\/"},"modified":"2022-04-29T15:19:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:19:37","slug":"some-people-need-to-lighten-up-its-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memora8ilia.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/29\/some-people-need-to-lighten-up-its-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best and truest discourse regarding Twitter&rsquo;s predicament (and that of its users) expresses the sentiment of just letting it go. This is a hopeful stance so don&rsquo;t misconstrue it with surrender or giving up. Folks obsessed with fixing, preserving, or even finding an equal replacement for Twitter are embracing a defective template. Like arguing with Spotify to change its ways, a focus on what&rsquo;s clearly an unsolvable problem distracts us from creating &lsquo;first-principles&rsquo; alternatives (to cheekily steal a phrase often attibuted to EM). Rip it up and start again.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.garbageday.email\/p\/some-people-need-to-lighten-up-its\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.garbageday.email\/p\/some-people-need-to-lighten-up-its\",\"title\":\"Some people need to lighten up. It\u2019s Twitter!\",\"description\":\"Read to the end for a really good GIF set\",\"site_name\":\"garbageday.email\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"cb0dc0d71b9d261242c331e7ccd020d2:e6b0b8bc9f4f9a26-da\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":314}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garbageday.email\/p\/some-people-need-to-lighten-up-its\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some people need to lighten up. It\u2019s Twitter!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u275d I\u2019ve seen arguments on Twitter from liberal users this week saying things like, \u201cTwitter is a public square and the front page of the internet, we must stay and fight the Musk fans and conservatives for it.\u201d lol with all due respect, but why? The main benefit of the internet is that it\u2019s infinite. There doesn\u2019t need to be a public square! And there can also be many! [&hellip;] Twitter, though smaller than other platforms, still monopolizes our culture more than any other. And very soon it will be owned by the richest man on Earth\u2026 But we don\u2019t need to stay there. There\u2019s nothing keeping us there. And I\u2019d argue we can take it further. We now know that centralized feeds are just easy targets for despots and oligarchs (and whatever Mark Zuckerberg is) to capture and control. We need to throw it all out. Make websites and message boards and Discords and become ungovernable. Kill the central feed. \u275e <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garbageday.email\/p\/some-people-need-to-lighten-up-its\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/lab\/lost-thread\/\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/lab\/lost-thread\/\",\"title\":\"The lost thread\",\"description\":\"The speed with which Twitter recedes in your mind will shock you.\",\"site_name\":\"Robin Sloan\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"551599f6a05a367cd41f469cd166368d:e6b0b8bc9f4f9a26-1d\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":1262}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/lab\/lost-thread\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The lost thread<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u275d There are so many ways people might relate to one another online, so many ways exchange and conviviality might be organized. Look at these screens, this wash of pixels, the liquid potential! What a colossal bummer that Twitter eked out a local maximum; that its network effect still (!) consumes the fuel for other possibilities, other\u00a0explorations. \u275e <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/lab\/lost-thread\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">*<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best and truest discourse regarding Twitter&rsquo;s predicament (and that of its users) expresses the sentiment of just letting it go. This is a hopeful stance so don&rsquo;t misconstrue it with surrender or giving up. Folks obsessed with fixing, preserving, or even finding an equal replacement for Twitter are embracing a defective template. 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