Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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      10 months ago

      I would argue that the format incentivizes short quips and discussions lacking nuance in favor of brevity, and yes, therefore it’s “bad” (to use their term) to use Twitter even if musk wasn’t turning it into Truth Social.

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        210 months ago

        I would argue that a brief, broadly encompassing feed has its advantages when it’s not being driven into lunacy. Discussions on Twitter are always terrible, but as a source for news headlines and media announcements it works pretty well.

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          10 months ago

          Sure, but you can get that with something more long-form, too; it’s not exclusive to Twitter/microblogging .

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            110 months ago

            Conversely, if someone wants a summarized feed, having to browse past walls of text is an inconvenience.

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              310 months ago

              Well, that’s a good point but I still think there are better services than Twitter/microblogging for that. Like our old friend RSS

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                110 months ago

                I like RSS in theory, I used it a lot, but these days websites don’t maintain them as well as they used to.