Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month
by soulofmischief on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @08:28PM
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> The Pareto Principle is just a rule-of-thumb, it's not an actual law of anything, and is just an expression of power law dynamics.
I never said otherwise.
> 97% of content being created by 25% of users is staggering
100% agree, it's just not surprising and is within a range observed in other communities. It's also unclear how many accounts constitute as active.
> I know very few people in my real life that actually use Twitter.
I don't know if most citizens necessarily hung out at the forum all day either, I'd be curious what percentage of ancient Greek and Roman populations made use of forums, and how frequently. If, besides commerce, discourse was often left to highly engaged citizens.
> I don't pretend that HN or other online communities I'm part of are somehow a vital resource for all of humanity.
I think positive networking is one of the most important activities our generation should be engaged in. We should be forming rich, useful and sustainable social networks which allow us to tackle problems at scale. A lot of serious relationships, companies, and ideas come out of places where similar minds meet such as Hacker News. Whether it's vital to some arbitrary societal metric is of little interest to me, as it is personally vital to my own life and I'm sure my individual experience is common enough to warrant nurturing.
I never said otherwise.
> 97% of content being created by 25% of users is staggering
100% agree, it's just not surprising and is within a range observed in other communities. It's also unclear how many accounts constitute as active.
> I know very few people in my real life that actually use Twitter.
I don't know if most citizens necessarily hung out at the forum all day either, I'd be curious what percentage of ancient Greek and Roman populations made use of forums, and how frequently. If, besides commerce, discourse was often left to highly engaged citizens.
> I don't pretend that HN or other online communities I'm part of are somehow a vital resource for all of humanity.
I think positive networking is one of the most important activities our generation should be engaged in. We should be forming rich, useful and sustainable social networks which allow us to tackle problems at scale. A lot of serious relationships, companies, and ideas come out of places where similar minds meet such as Hacker News. Whether it's vital to some arbitrary societal metric is of little interest to me, as it is personally vital to my own life and I'm sure my individual experience is common enough to warrant nurturing.