I think the main value proposition of twitter was always that it allowed us to ignore social connections. I remember feeling like I was getting away with something when I could find all the most interesting people maintaining open source projects and follow them on twitter, and actually interact with them. it was the opposite of facebook at the time, where you had to know them in real life. I think the innovation cycle has moved on, but the value of connecting flows of information beyond people's social circles is still incredible important, but I want to see more long-form content there. I think blogs and podcasts are the right media for this, with the npub being the new equivalent of a domain name. I want to follow someone's blog (NIP23 posts), and be able to reply to their posts from my npub, and see any other similar content they put out. and be able to browse who they follow, etc. but have less exposure to the fast moving, twitter like message threads. this is information annealing, let things cool slowly to form big crystals.

/rant