"We can have both a nice community *and* features that people miss from Twitter"
Okay, but like, *how*?
I see some variation of this claim constantly, and it sounds very confident, but suspiciously absent every time is any kind of solution to "how do we combine the two".
People have - rightly - expressed concerns about those features, and how they encourage certain behaviours. If you think they can coexist, how would you prevent those behaviours? How do you mitigate the negative effects?
Just saying "they can both exist" without actually addressing people's concerns essentially amounts to saying "I don't believe that your concerns are valid, I'm sure it'll all magically work out"
... which I hope I don't need to explain why that's a problematic approach.
re: "We can have both a nice community *and* features that people miss from Twitter"
"I don't believe that your concerns are valid, I'm sure it'll all magically work out"
tech bro grindset
"We can have both a nice community *and* features that people miss from Twitter"
@joepie91 I agree with this caution - the structure of a social system is like the layout of a building. People make individual choices, but the structure itself can act as an attractor for behavior in ways that can’t be counteracted by “just being better”. This is especially true when the form of the structure attaches to human psychology, which we know Twitter was designed to do!