The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    SMS was the original reason, but the side effect of forcing people to condense their thoughts into a couple sentences was pretty wonderful. Especially for an open ended community where anyone can talk about anything.

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      8 months ago

      I disagree with you simply because brevity is nice but not at the expense of nuance. Having to try to follow a string of tweets because one simply can’t suffice is awful.

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      8 months ago

      Wonderful in theory, but in practice it’s a dumpster fire. Quick, mainstreamm-acceptable takes are incentived, and nuanced, alternative viewpoints are nearly impossible.

      If it were all for hobby stuff, it would be fine, but when this is how most people get their news, it’s not good.