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I feel like there’s so many lessons for the next generation of social entrepreneurs, building on AT Protocol, Nostr Protocol, Mastodon and the like, about how to build a social network people love instead of just one they use.

Things like The Dress are just wonderful shared moments. Everyone experiences it in their own weird way and reflects it back.

I think it really does make a difference that there was a Before and After for twitter, too. Like... Facebook is reaching the end of its natural lifespan and dying but also it's been shitting on our carpets a long time so we're kind of relieved. Twitter's being tortured to death while it was healthy

I can't think of a single relationship I built on Facebook that I didn't have already that I'd be sad to lose. I can think of a few that are worse because of it. Twitter exposed me to genuinely enlightening people and relationships that I'd otherwise not have

In 2020 i had a friend of my dad’s threaten me over an argument on there about Minneapolis cops. Unbelievable garbage on that site. Pretty much walked away from it then and only kept it to keep contact with old friends

Frankly

Realistically the thing that killed twitter was all of your middle school classmates’ racist uncles getting signal boosted because they kept whinging that no one would listen to them