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@mint if only there was a technical solution to people wanting to talk on a social network

@menherahair >THIS IS A THREAD FOR ME AND MY FRIENDS, WHY ARE YOU POSTING IN IT?
Because I can and I have words to say, duh. Sounds like Discord guild would be more fitting for you.

@mint @menherahair why hasn't he made spw into a discord server yet then

@lina @mint if you read carefully he only dislikes "rage replying" which as far as I understand is when a person sees something they don't like and replies to it in a way nobody enjoys. how the fuck has he figured that
1. unpleasant people existing is a problem you can solve with platform design
2. unpleasant people existing is a problem you *should* solve with platform design
much like yourself, is beyond me

@menherahair @lina @mint Twitter mitigated this in two thousand fucking oh six, dipshit.

@menherahair @lina @mint all of you are midwits at best, except mint, who is smart but chooses to make posts like this, understanding what I said, because he is also the only one who read the whole thread.

@lina @menherahair @mint he knows I'm not arguing for censorship or making an impotent plea for people to be more polite, something that is never going to happen. All I said was, the basic design decisions of a social media app affect the outcome, and drive by comments bothering people are the natural result of dumping every fucking reply in someone's tl even if they aren't participating in the conversation. This is a really fucking simple concept.

@sun @lina @menherahair My disagreement comes from the fact I find negative connotations of "drive-bys" and "reply guys" ridiculous. It's a social fucking network, in its most raw and unfiltered state. I like it being a chaotic stream of consciousness, makes it more lively than said engagement farms.

@sun @lina @menherahair If something *gets* replies, it's something worth discussion or at least ridicule. There's a pattern I keep seeing with you, you start to passionately argue about some topic (e.g. slop machines) then you felt when getting disagreed in the same heat of passion. This one suggestion in OP sounds like a logical solution you coined for your emotional burden.

@mint @lina @menherahair it's really not, I've been here for ten years and argued a lot, I really only started disengaging fairly recently, shortly after a life change that required me to not spend as much time arguing online. I still do it too much.

@sun @lina @menherahair Either way @phnt made a good argument for replies in timeline. replies often hold more value than starting posts to begin with, by offering more context or argument or derailing it into the more exciting topic entirely. Whether that's a good tradeoff for not having random people responding to public posts is debatable, but people who think it is strike me as those who take more than they give.