I like that actually

In many cases no solutions is better than poorly thought out solutions. Like capitalism despite being the best known system and bringing about so much progress for the world does have some serious flaws, but then when you look at the commonly proposed solutions like Socialism you realize that just striving for progress without care for unintended consequences is a poor choice

And things like "Students of a progressive viewpoint rated this professor as X, while students of a conservative viewpoint rated them Y"

But it could go awry pretty quickly

Oh yeah, it'd have to be pretty heavily anonymized. Maybe require institutional email.

Most people just aren't equipped to create good solutions, but that doesn't mean they can't point out real problems

Facebook was best when it required institutional email.

Oh, like not actually meet in person?

Well, that could go EXTRA bad.

Ok

Imagine people at Berkeley using that to stalk wrong-thinkers.

I was gonna say, there are people who'd use just to identify "Nazis" on their campus

But if it stayed online in a pseudoanonymous environment it could work well.

That would be pretty interesting to see

And the institutions themselves could organized IRL meetups in safe public spaces.

What are you people talking about

how to cure ligma

Cyanide

Oh BTW I did an amazing thing today

I deleted both my twitter accounts

And instead I took an online course about AI

It feels so good

Why do people get mad at twitter? It's garbage for politics, so just follow fun people and don't take it seriously.

they have trouble distinguising between real life and online life

and thus don't get shitposting

it's not worth it to have a twitter account. Low energy posting, normie memes, fake news and witchhunts

I miss when we were told to keep your identity a secret online. The modern internet is boring because everyone is scared of being ostracized for making jokes and speaking their mind.

same

you can read tweets without having an account, if there's specific people you find fun or a dev you want updates from

There's very little effort in having an account if you're going to do that. Just follow those people and don't follow the ones making/retweeting normalfag memes/fake news/moral outrage

But I feel bad for the kids who don't fit in in real life what with the normification of the internet.

what is the purpose in having an account? Keeping up with people is EZ if you dont have one

Because you don't have to remember every person you want to keep up with, and can interact with them/others who like them if you have one.

right but twitter interactions are shit by design

Depends on what you're after. If you want long form nuanced discussion then yeah it sucks, but that's why I said it sucks for politics.

140 characters is only good for smalltalk and platitudes, so you either have a long string of tweets to discuss one thing, or you use another service

nuance exists outside of politics

Same reason to have a youtube account. I *could* just remember every person I want to watch the videos of, or I could just make an account

They doubled it to 280. Still not amazing, but much better. I only started using it at the start of this year. Like I said, just don't take it seriously. If you're only after serious discussion, then yeah look elsewhere

they doubled it for everyone? Because they initially only did it for the privileged elite <:VeRiFiEd:463064374236413962> 's

also you can have full, nuanced replies on YT, you just might run into an idiot