Why would anyone wanna ape twitter

It's one of the worst mediums I've ever seen.

it is still quite new

but it is federated which is a plus

I don't even use twitter anyway

but federated is pretty rad

I actually like the idea of twitter, basically thinking of it as a big chatroom. it's terrible for serious discussion of course.

It's cool, but doesn't interest me all that much

*maximum default message length is 500 charactets*

i see twitter more like a rss feed

With twitter and the small character limit, every tweet seemed like a bold declarative statement. A recipe for the most arguments of any medium. You would be actively punished with less viewership for going more in-depth. It became difficult to read your posts as one whole.

With tumblr..

The problem is less obvious with tumblr, but just as malignant.

Suppose everyone you follow on tumblr is in some sort of heated argument.

From your perspective, everyone you follow is DUNKING on their opponents all the time.

iirc on mastodon you can limit who can read the post, followers only etc

No one you follow is ever wrong.

1st and 2nd parties are arguing. 3rd party only follows the first.

The 3rd party only knows the 2nd party won the argument when the 1st party chooses to reblog it. And guess how often that happens.

yeah twitter "threaded conversations" are the wurst

moldy wurst

wish Usenet or something like mailists take over next

with proper threading

remember forums

good times

most are not that threaded

threaded is doo doo

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discourse got some threading, but is more like twitters where it only shows replies

talkyard.io is similar to how reddit looks

Forums are great

I still use a few

most forums are dead now

That's sad, but true

everything has moved to facebook 😦

even "websites" have moved to facebook

Which makes no sense and is very not fun

facebook is like the exclusive in-group at the moment

Facebook is like the ridiculous social network super-power big brother at the moment

"exclusive"

I don't get why you can't access facebook stuffs without being a member