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twitter circles were good because you could just… give people who seem to like you the option of getting to know you better, without actively having to approach them about it. i mean i never used them for this but, ahh, it would be so useful to me right now
i now have 2,600 followers on twitter, i can't do things quietly any more ;w;
(why did i cross-post this to the fediverse, it's a very different social context and this complaint doesn't really apply here in the same way)
circles are dead and the heyday of twitter alts is clearly ending but they still have no good replacement. i'm so sad.
(i wanted to make an end-to-end-encrypted app that replicates the twitter alt experience, but i don't have the network effect magic pull that'd make all my friends and potential friends use it, and i'm already at risk for OSS maintainer burnout without dabbling in cryptography)