Oh wow so I'm not the only one who felt like this.
Having different unsynchronized servers has been a gigantic turn off for me.
That's like the one thing that shouldn't be the case with anything social online.
Having different unsynchronized servers has been a gigantic turn off for me.
That's like the one thing that shouldn't be the case with anything social online.
Twitter is just text messages as spectator sport, people can do without it. The real problem is a narrowing range of media in general through active state action, continued consolidation, and the fact that tech multibillionaires just buy outlets like twitter, The Atlantic, the WaPo etc. and use them for egotistical social manipulation instead of to inform and stimulate important discussion. If it weren't for that, twitter would be the celebrity bore that it always was before weird twitter took the piss out of it. Now it's serving as an outlet for every frustration because those frustrations have been censored out of traditional media.
The only issue for microblogs is needing multiple accounts for comment sections, which can be solved by SMTP, anonymous guest posting, social login, or WebMentions (which I don’t really like due to the complexity and federation, but thought I’d mention).