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user-inactivated  ·  3677 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Hope Twitter Goes Away - A deeper look at the reasons why Twitter is the way it is

I agree -- but remember what you're not seeing. This week I've been in the midst of a really excellent pm discussion with wasoxygen, someone whose beliefs rarely dovetail with mine, to pick one example. I've been a part of other internet communities where I felt comfortable engaging other members in lengthy one-on-one chats, but never about such erudite subjects.

Take away the dots and you get a better environment for discussion.

Fact is, hubski is a thousand times better at this than anywhere else on the internet. Every once in a while I break out of my normal sports+music reddit use, comment seriously on something somewhere, and am inevitably reminded that no, it's not like hubski. Then I flee.