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user-inactivated  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Hope Twitter Goes Away - A deeper look at the reasons why Twitter is the way it is

    It's for all these reasons that I hope Twitter genuinely ceases to be. I want a product that enables me to build and participate in communities, that encourages discussions and expressing meaningful ideas.

In all seriousness, someone message this guy and invite him to hubski.





user-inactivated  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  

Honestly, Hubski hasn't been as great at encouraging intelligent discussion as it could/should be. Certainly not as good as I'd hoped. Since joining, I've seen repeatedly that certain users utterly reject opinions they don't like, and go out of their way to chase those users around. Or they'll just throw fits at a notion they don't like and loudly abstain, as if their abstention from an activity is supposed to manipulate people into not doing it.

Hubski is a good attempt, but it isn't perfect.

user-inactivated  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree -- but remember what you're not seeing. This week I've been in the midst of a really excellent pm discussion with wasoxygen, someone whose beliefs rarely dovetail with mine, to pick one example. I've been a part of other internet communities where I felt comfortable engaging other members in lengthy one-on-one chats, but never about such erudite subjects.

Take away the dots and you get a better environment for discussion.

Fact is, hubski is a thousand times better at this than anywhere else on the internet. Every once in a while I break out of my normal sports+music reddit use, comment seriously on something somewhere, and am inevitably reminded that no, it's not like hubski. Then I flee.

wasoxygen  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    a really excellent pm discussion

In which the very words (if I may quote you) "Things could and should be much better" appeared.

I think it is constructive to compare things to real alternatives that actually exist, not to things we imagine could or should be. As you do here, comparing this site to other online spaces. As you know, you go to the Internet with the website you have, not the website you might want or wish to have at a later time.

user-inactivated  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Touche.

Dammit.

user-inactivated  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Perhaps true, the occurrences are often enough that I've typed out comments here and decided not to post them - to me that's enough of a discouragement to be a problem, as it's exactly what stops me from commenting on reddit often enough.

user-inactivated  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Message them to someone instead! Sometimes that becomes really interesting and fun.

user-inactivated  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Usually I end up talking about them with ironpotato in IRC, I don't PM much here.

ironpotato  ·  3683 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces....

Oops, thought this was reddit, my bad.