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Something Happened on twitter, and i entered the longest most productive and emotionally significant period of hyperfocus of my life, and channeled my anger and sadness into creative ends, and what came out was this blog post that'sā¦ very plausibly the longest thing i've ever written in one sitting, and somehow the most coherent and digestible. it's about what's happening to twitter. please read it. i poured my heart into it. https://hikari.noyu.me/blog/2024-10-02-the-algorithm-is-killing-twitter-and-its-driving-me-insane.html
@hikari Thank you for writing it, this is an excellent piece. Very clear description of the issues, some great turns of phrase in there too. I love "scorched-earch engagement."
At this point I just don't think there's anything to be gained by engaging with 2024 Xitter. It has all of the bad parts of 201X Twitter (the Anger Machine, context collapse, the Eye of Sauron, etc.) but cranked up to 11, and none of its virtues (interesting people from cool subcultures). It used to be hugely meaningful to me as well but I finally decided to break off earlier this year and i haven't looked back.
@kaye thank you! iā¦ can't really disagree. i keep coming back to twitter because the dying embers of cool subcultures there (that i haven't found elsewhere) still bring me joy, but it will not be long before they're completely dead :(