There’s nothing wrong with liking Threads and thinking it’ll kill Twitter. It won't, but you can think that.
There’s also nothing wrong with me thinking Threads is stupid, and that people who like Threads are stupid and making fun of them on Twitter, which, will federate and be fine and be its own thing.
Or, playing both sides for my own amusement and profit.
That’s the beauty of these things called civil liberties, democracy, and freedom of expression and freedom of association, and participation... that the Internet was supposedly built to enable. That was the promise I thought there was.
I know it's very inconvenient, to have to hear that maybe you aren't all that great, and I don't think you're all that clever or interesting... but so long as I am not crossing a line into harassment and keep it above the waist/in good humour/am giving you tough love, it is as much my right to call you a vessel for corporate nonsense and doublethink as it is for you to be one.
If you are a little more open-minded, and humble, you might even take some of that tough love on board, and might listen and achieve actual change, actual progress, and do something over and above a pitch deck to help the structurally disadvantaged.
People are angry on Twitter because they've been dispossessed and are angry and hurting. They need an outlet for their anger because the powers that be aren't listening, keep promising and never delivering. and are too busy tweaking their decks and talking about how "nice" Threads is, without those vulgar and horrible people who say horrible things. I mean, imagine being upset by the current system AND SAYING IT OUT LOUD to the people who hoard all the resources and power and don't share.
The nerve of them. Don't they know who is allowed to speak?
Honestly? I am perfectly fine with you existing on the internet. I am not some dude still holding grudges against AOL from September 1993. I, in fact, encourage it, because I get a lot of amusement and comedy mileage from laughing at you. I want you to have a curated experience, a portal that makes people enjoy the internet as much as I have over the years.
You become my problem when you start telling me that I am not allowed to like Twitter, want to start policing what isn't on your branded portal and Fisher Price Internet, and don't want me to have my own non-bland, non-stupid beliefs and ideas.
So, Threads lovers and Twitter haters, how about you just... leave everyone alone and make it okay for me too and stop censoring people and policing thoughts.
Or, better yet, learn how to coexist on something built for all of us, not just you and your brand partners and Human Resources Managers. How about we all part ways, and live and let live.
One day, you might even learn to step out of this bubble you've made for yourself where you are great, you are right, and everything you do is for the best... and maybe, with a little help, look within and see that maybe, you ain't so great, take the feedback, reflect on the substance and realise that you are actually part of a very big problem.
Thanks.
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I am still getting my head around a lot of the technical details, but from what I see, interoperability is going to be the biggest challenge, and normies being able to sign up and have it all work seamlessly. If it confused me, it confuses 99% of users. It is exciting to see a revival of the old religious wars over platforms though. haha. What's old is new.
Good to see that #nostr has gotten a little better in the #ux department since the last time I checked. Well done!
This Aussie objects lol
Still navigating this whole thing, and it seems we are going to need to find a way for Nostor to speak to ActivityPub. Sigh. lol. Oh geez.
#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "tealou"
I am only just having a look at all of this, and the learning curve, even for someone familiar with the concepts, is a lot. It has still taken me a whole day to figure out wth is going on and probably have 10 IDs now lol... still don't know what a Zap is. heh. Anyway, there is always that tension between normie uptake and viability and I hope various projects can help with that onboarding gap to what is a great product.
Personally, I am just excited to see people working so hard and agree that optics is paramount. Anyway, I hope to persevere and help where I can (hope you don't mind me jumping in and replying here to test/find people/get events etc working). I'm one of those 30-year Unicorn Design and people-people, not an engineer, but giving it a good shot. Onya, folks. You're all doing great.
If anyone can help me with my slight knowledge gap on how to link all my different keys together (I appear to be having some issues with doing it for my domain (Cloudflare > Wordpress Multisite on WPEngine which means a couple of hiccups along the way...)... anyway, good to know ya, nerds. x
Hello, world.
Okay so it appears I am up and running on this #nostr thing. Took me a hot second to figure out WTF was going on, and looking where I might be able to offer UX help/sweat... but I'll KISS and use Iris for now. Remember, it's nostril without the il, Téa.
Currently in a little bit of a brain-loop between protocols and IDs (not an engineer, brain shutters keep auto-engaging), but... if I can be of any help to people to bring these solutions to the normies, I'm your gal.
Do we even want normies? They fucked up the internet...
Love to all, out there in the void. I am, however, familiar with the void, given I have been algo-fucked to the ends of the earth because I am Australian and like coining phrases such as "algo-fuck".
Testing mentions #[0] but only because he's probably the only person I know. heh. #[1]
heh this is weird. I also think there are now 15 impostor accounts with my username.... the thing that annoyed me about ActivityPub. But I am determined to not be defeated and bring new stuff to users. Good to know you all.
This is much longer than my first ever Tweet. "This is my Twitter, testing" or something along those lines, I believe.