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Here's the thing: there is no going back to a different era of Twitter. This doesn't replace it, Threads doesn't replace it, Twitter doesn't replace it. That era is dead, no return, it was a very fun 5-10 year window or so that dragged on past its prime until it dropped off a cliff.

The thing is the *entire internet* is different now than it was a decade ago (and, largely, not for the better). All of this is interrelated and there's no going *backwards* only forward. So work for a better future, don't angle for a return to an idealized past.

"I would like the things that currently exist to be more like I remember them being when I was younger and funner" is basically the entire Boomer cultural hegemony in a nutshell so I'd prefer not to repeat that series of mistakes ever. Nostalgia is a cop, all cops are bastards.