Re:I resigned from Twitter
by cletus on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:56PM
(#29382881)
Another case of blaming a symptom rather than the cause.
The media began showing Tweets because Twitter had reached a sufficient audience size. The real problem is the audience size.
Stroustrup famously said [1]:
> There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
I'd paraphrase this about communication platforms (including social media, Reddit, forums, etc):
> There are only two kinds of communication platforms: the ones where people are reactionary, argumentative, tribal, incendiary, conflict-seeking, virtue-signaling and just downright mean and the others too small for that not to have happened yet.
The media began showing Tweets because Twitter had reached a sufficient audience size. The real problem is the audience size.
Stroustrup famously said [1]:
> There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
I'd paraphrase this about communication platforms (including social media, Reddit, forums, etc):
> There are only two kinds of communication platforms: the ones where people are reactionary, argumentative, tribal, incendiary, conflict-seeking, virtue-signaling and just downright mean and the others too small for that not to have happened yet.
[1]: https://www.stroustrup.com/quotes.html#:~:text=%22There%20ar....