Discovered: Apr 18, 2025 01:13 ME:: Twitter-like systems are harmful for the web because there’s no links, character limits, etc ; READ Coyote:: Twitterlike is a Bad Shape via Dave on scripting.com –> Read the whole thing: Coyote:: Twitterlike is a Bad Shape <– QUOTE: Twitter and its imitators have adopted a structural design that is fundamentally bad for people. This isn't just a matter of who's in charge; it's a problem with the thing itself. Forcing users to adhere to a tight character limit, discouraging link culture, preventing people from editing their own posts, steering people into sharing things they hate, incentivizing rage bait with trending feeds, subjecting people to decontextualized encounters, encouraging conflict by discouraging tags, and leaving users powerless to clean up the resulting mess—all of this is bad shape.

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