What has happened to the group of close friends that I met over the years on Twitter is that we retreated to a Discord; but within that, we noticed that those who also stayed on Twitter maintained a much more angry, confrontational style and we ended up with a couple of them leaving as a result. It's viral as in smallpox.
> the microblogging sites seem like a completely flat layer. There isn't really a community sense there.
This used to form spontaneously around shared events and hashtags. But ultimately the culture war poison comes for everyone. Elon is just the highest profile example of someone who got rage-poisoned and then took it out on everyone else, and is now using the platform to automate rage-spreading. Like a crap version of 28 days later, infectious viral rage.
Amusingly the same thing happened to us, though we ended up on Slack/Signal/iMessage group chats. And I was the only left who stayed on Twitter and consequently the only one[0] with the confrontational style. To my good fortune, it was Twitter that I left, rather than the group chats.
And yeah, Elon is certainly a victim of this virus. I think Bill Ackman getting snookered into paying a tip twice in a classic cabbie scam was the first time I could clearly see how people could end up suddenly stupid through this disease
> the microblogging sites seem like a completely flat layer. There isn't really a community sense there.
This used to form spontaneously around shared events and hashtags. But ultimately the culture war poison comes for everyone. Elon is just the highest profile example of someone who got rage-poisoned and then took it out on everyone else, and is now using the platform to automate rage-spreading. Like a crap version of 28 days later, infectious viral rage.