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Yea I like Strauss but this was a bit strange. He doesn’t seem to understand the profile and iq of the average Twitter user and the type that drives “virality.” Additionally one can immediately engage with an image (which is why every stupid engagement optimizing account would tweet with images), reading an external piece takes more work

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One of those filters I want to apply to Mastodon is “images with text”, that is, it is frequently a screenshot of an X (yuck!) or some inflammatory message that I won’t repeat. People do click on them though which is what makes them so annoying.

Haha, there’s that meme about five websites or so that r just screenshots of the other websites.

And yea it enables those stupid posts so I try to refrain from engaging

> He doesn’t seem to understand the profile and iq of the average Twitter user and the type that drives “virality.”

There was still an enormous (and arguably self-sustaining) population of "readers".

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