I rambled earlier today.
Many attempts have been made to replicate what Twitter was. IMHO, that is long gone. It's a thing of the past and no longer realistic to expect people to give it a go.
Some of the new tools may be successful in some aspects, but none come close to what Twitter was.
I can't help, but think this is lazy thinking. The world has changed. There are too many people on the internet to design for everyone.
It's time to build differently. On a smaller scale. Meaningfully. With real boundaries of care. And with value.
[source & Ars Technica article and my LinkedIn cross-post]
I get the nostalgia. The desire to have what we once had. It was good and for a while it felt easy to share things and get eye balls on our activities. Especially because, for the most part, we only had one main place to go share an update. Now, we feel pressured to cross post things in many different places. The results are normally poor, especially when we can compare it to the earlier days.
Everything is fragmented. Partly that sucks because it makes keeping in touch and 'marketing' so much harder. I have a hunch, that I'm not the only one who feels they have to do 1ox the work to gain any sort of attraction or attention on my thing.
But that time has now passed. Twitter was designed during a different period. And don't get me started on LinkedIn, I can't stand it, despite keeping showing up there, mostly to cross post my rambles.
We have to move on. And perhaps more importantly, find confidence to move on. We can wave our hands good bye to what once was. We can stop trying to replicate social as if it is the thing we need to improve our lives. The more I move away from that perspective, the more I believe that social stops us growing elsewhere.
There is another way.
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