Re:Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a ...
by samwillis on Saturday April 08, 2023 @02:59AM
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> I think you're taking a silly website way too seriously.
What may be a silly website to you is a major revenue channel, community lifeline, platform for change, or a free and safe space for others.
Twitter is many different things to many different people. It clearly has its flaws, and always has, but dismissing it as a "silly website" does disservice to the impact and importance it has on people's lives.
Twitter isn't really the software, or the business that owns it. It's the people who use it, the community. Sadly that's been forgotten under its current ownership.
What may be a silly website to you is a major revenue channel, community lifeline, platform for change, or a free and safe space for others.
Twitter is many different things to many different people. It clearly has its flaws, and always has, but dismissing it as a "silly website" does disservice to the impact and importance it has on people's lives.
Twitter isn't really the software, or the business that owns it. It's the people who use it, the community. Sadly that's been forgotten under its current ownership.