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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by sixstringtheory on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:17PM (#23863922)
That’s a very interesting idea. Is that how the stackexchange/stackoverflow/etc sites operate? They seem siloed but I don’t have much experience with them.

I also saw an interesting point here recently that the reason Instagram seems to be better than FB/Twitter is that there’s no built in way to signal boost with shares or retweets. And really, you can’t even have hyperlinks. Would that be a consideration?

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by tomjen3 on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:55AM (#23868248)
You get 200 basic karma when you go to a new stackoverflow community with an existing account (or you did the last time I did) but other than that you start over from scratch.

However Stackoverflow is also not really a community, so I don't think what they do necessarily applies.

I don't use Instagram much (don't need more addictive stuff in my life), but I seem to remember that you could still like stuff. No hyperlinks would ruin a community in opinion, since it means you can't back a point with facts.

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