Twitter and its imitators have adopted a structural design that is fundamentally bad for people. This isn't just a matter of who's in charge; it's a problem with the thing itself. Forcing users to adhere to a tight character limit, discouraging link culture, preventing people from editing their own posts, steering people into sharing things they hate, incentivizing rage bait with trending feeds, subjecting people to decontextualized encounters, encouraging conflict by discouraging tags, and leaving users powerless to clean up the resulting mess—all of this is bad shape.
Hi friends, It’s again been over three months since I sent out the previous newsletter for friends. And once again, a lot has happened in life. Here’s a small snapshot of some notable things you might like to browse. Click the links you’re curious about—that’s
People liked my last post, why didn’t they like this one? Someone with a lot of followers shared my post! Maybe more people will like and share it too. What...
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Issue 263 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal includes links to our six newest posts and related links on past articles about snowmen, 24 links from around the web, and other news and notes from the week that was.