Re:Waze Founder Noam Bardin is starting up a Twitter alterna...
by jghn on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:02PM
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I use(d) Twitter as more of a meta-aggregator. It had actual social interactions combined with the sort of pointers out to news sites, tech blogs, etc. Perhaps I'm an outlier in how I use(d) it but I haven't come across anything that provided the same degree of convergence. This is precisely because it's mixing in short snippets from friends, acquaintances, and other people I find interesting.
> Instead, limit content on social sites to the subject of the platform
That's my point. I'm saying the thing I liked most about Twitter was that there wasn't a single "subject of the platform". Don't get me wrong, I also spend plenty of time in more specific corners of the internet, but I've yet to find something that quite replicates Twitter for me.
Re:Waze Founder Noam Bardin is starting up a Twitter alterna...
by registeredcorn on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @10:12AM
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That's fair. Personally, I like to keep things separated from one another for obvious reasons (controversial topics mixed with friends/family can lead to issues) but I can also see that others might prefer a single source.
I don't mean to sound overly dismissive, but maybe instead of putting the onus on a social media website to provide that experience, wouldn't it be more sensible to get that from a news aggregate site? I.e. Google News, Fark, Reddit, etc.?
Part of the issue with how modern social media platforms is the intent to keep users on their platform for many hours at a time. Instead, limiting content on those sites to the intent of the platform, and allowing users to find that other content outside of the site would be a "better" way to manage their experience on the platforms content. For example, a platform devoted to Formula 1 would not be a good place to inject articles about COVID information or political events. It wouldn't be a good place to do so, not just because it would be severely off topic, but also because it would be managed by people who would otherwise be focused on curating the topic they are (presumably) knowledgeable on.
Basically, I'm saying it's not a good idea to get news updates from Twitter for the same reason why it's not a good idea to get a sushi from a gas station bathroom.