(2022-04-26) Sloan The Lost Thread

Robin Sloan: The lost thread. An industrialist intends to purchase Twitter, Inc. His substantial success launching reusable spaceships does nothing to prepare him for the challenge of building social spaces. (Musk Buys Twitter)

The platform’s only conclusion can be abandonment: an overdue MySpace-ification.

What a colossal bummer that Twitter eked out a local maximum; that its network effect still (!) consumes the fuel for other possibilities, other explorations.

Twitter has no future, so please, enjoy it only and exactly for what it is — every decline is surfable - and do not disregard the alternatives to its timeline, when and if they appear.

Yeah, I’m working on one!

The amount that Twitter omits is breathtaking. More than any other social platform, it is indifferent to huge swaths of human experience and endeavor. I invite you to imagine this omitted content as a vast, bustling city.

The speed with which Twitter recedes in your mind will shock you