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Re:So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebri... by prepend on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:34AM (#20081397)
It’s the first time for me :)

That’s cool that lots of people like tweetstorms, I don’t. That’s cool that there are different people in the world with different preferences.

Expecting me not to comment on something that is novel to me and seemingly pretty annoying and easy to fix (use a better tool) is something that would make me frustrated if I tried to apply that to others.

Imagine if I stubbed my toe. Imaging if someone said “lots of people don’t stub their toes, your complaint bores me” when I said “Dammit.”

Re:So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebri... by Frondo on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:59PM (#20085391)
The point is, for the author, this is the best tool. Using any other tool would not be an easy fix, it'd be a significant enough barrier to publication that they simply wouldn't publish it.

In their words, if they had to blog, they wouldn't publish anything; this is where it's on us to adapt, or move onto other content if you really can't stand Twitter.

Re:So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebri... by prepend on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @04:17AM (#20093001)
The point is, I think it’s not the best tool for the author and that if he had more help he would find a better tool.

If course, it’s pretty much impossible to literally know this, as how in the world do you know what people have tried or what they are capable of. As someone who once worked in tech support, I learned not to believe people who say “I tried everything and I have a unique need that I can’t explain to you.” Only to learn they didn’t try everything and their computer is not plugged in.

There are a few steps I need to know about between “ADHD; ???; therefore Twitter” before I understand.

I think this is an opportunity to help the author learn about new advances in microblogging that will reduce the number of people who ignore or don’t understand the content. I think it’s possible for the author to adapt, rather than requiring thousands of people to adapt on their own. That’s inefficient.