But as you say, people can do what they like.
Getting a post or tweet picked up by a large community who doesn't see your stuff regularly can be a lot more stressful than speaking directly to your audience (in this case, direct Twitter followers) who have a lot more context on your work.
I never understood why it's such a big deal. When people guess wrong about my gender, ethnicity, preferred spoken language, etc, I correct them.
I guess if they were to argue with me about the correction and insist their guess was right, that would get old fast and I'd be as frustrated as foone.
The author was upset that people don't like Twitter and so they used threadreaderapp and archived their tweets - so they went out and deleted the tweets while complaining about archiving?! They're fighting how the internet works and lashing out at people who have never heard their name before. They seem to want to be using Facebook with a closed friend group.
If you're not with us, you're with them.
* In Factorio (game) you can have space stations that send supplies to your ground base
* If the supplies are not caught, then they cause damage to your base
* To avoid sending supplies that cannot be caught, you can use logic controls
* A common approach is to have the station say "if (ground supply < X) send"
* This fails if the ground supply loses power, as no signal is interpreted as 0 and 0 < X
* Thus, the system will appear to work until your ground base loses power, at which point it will be destroyed
* A better system is to have the ground base use logic to say "if supply < X send signal" and the station to say "if signal received, send". This way, a power failure fails safe instead of fails active.
With a fun callout to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress