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I find Twitter teaching me to stand my ground in terms of my boundaries and what I enjoy. If I talk to somebody and they start insulting me, I mute. I mute people who insult others too. Difference between physical public space is that if some people are screaming at each other, you'd have to engage somehow (like break them off) or disengage by walking away. In Twitter you can mute them. Let them fight between themselves.

I tried Twitter many times but always stopped using it after reading a lot of upsetting materials. Like you follow favorite musician and beside music announcements, there are political rants. I returned to Twitter when I learned to use Mute function liberally. Maybe in your case, you'd feel better on more art related sites like Tumblr or DeviantArt?

I don't want another huge social network. I'd have a number of smaller autonomous ones.

IMO being informed is about your own research. Either making sure you follow trustworthy people and/or checking their sources.

Wondering if the account is real or fake? Check the person's website, wikipedia page, look if there are more accounts with this name.

People are willfully disinformed. Do you trust information just because it's being liked many times? Well, being popular doesn't mean it's right or healthy.

In Russia many people don't think their government is doing anything wrong. Why? TV says so. Their coworkers do. But you have Youtube, Telegram. Most media who's websites are blocked have YT channels or their articles can be read on Telegram with quick view. No VPN needed.

In my POV many moderation/censorship arguments boil down to the desire to be walled off from bad info vs being able to make individual choices. Russian government is doing the former by blocking independent media.

Russia began alleged NATO fighting well after it annexed Crimea and invaded Donbas.

Retaliate against what? Helping Russia's neighbor not being destroyed?

Personal info harvesting is at the core of most ad based businesses. Like Google of FB. I’d help people sell things. Like be a platform to sell books, nudes, news etc.

Verified accounts means it’s somebody well known outside of Twitter. So it’s beneficial to Twitter to have them.

I see today’s Twitter as a chat app where popular people promote their content to less popular. Maybe it would make sense to help populars sell stuff directly and get a cut.

sure

Maybe something funded by public, yes.

I think there is a need for smaller existing community-based social networks. They can be paid for by certain people or crowdfunded once in a while like Wikipedia.

I wouldn't pay for each video I watch now, but I could probably watch less. It's like eating junk food now: you can eat nonstop but it doesn't nourish.

Yes. I feel that "liking" is a consumerist approach to conversation. Buy/no buy, swipe left/right. It's more nuanced in real world. We don't always agree or disagree with people, sometimes we just listen and exchange words. So yeah, there would be less "likes", but they would be more substantial.

I wasn't talking about Twitter specifically. Ads are a dominating revenue model: Youtube, Instagram, Facebook etc. I had an idea of people using crypto payments instead of likes. A platform would take a cut.

I hope ads will die some day. To me they are just annoying and very rarely informative.

Serious question: what is the benefit for a journalist to work for a news org vs working solo?

I like the top bar and the neat bottom one. But I prefer having more space on the screen. I have an AutoHotkey script to show task bar only on key press so it's not toggle by accident. Then it's always fullscreen-like experience.

I believe that deep and interesting conversations need to have stakes. In your example with VCs, stakes would be trying to figure out where the market is going or trying to strike a deal. Latter also works for rich people.

In context of modern social media, the main stake is emotional involvement. Which is often a sign of a shallow understanding of a subject.

Take reddit conversations on controversial subjects. There would be loud statements with many upvotes and counterpoints with many downvotes. And downvotes discourage debating for regular people. So you are left with homogenous opinions and trolls.

I think interesting conversations may happen with individuals that you stumble upon by chance. Easiest way to get lucky is to be involved in some community that fits your interests.

Can you elaborate how your business was crushed by iOS14?

No. I use merriam-webster.com (!mw on duckduckgo) and I'm content.

I don’t understand. If you don’t want to see what someone says, you can mute or block them. What do you mean by conversation still happens?

It’s easy to mute accounts you don’t want to see on Twitter, even ones shown as ads.

Ted talk was fun though

I think, it implies that following an ideal (light) is futile, only seeing what is (darkness) works.

The most popular religion in the world is based on fall from grace, original sin that we must attone for to become pure again. Alternative is that there is no going back and no perfect world or state of mind ahead, only the reality, which is sometimes dirty and messy and for many of us hard to see clearly.

I found it: set new draft creation to never.

Amazing, thank you. That’s 90% what I’m looking for.

One thing though: it saves previous text in separate “files”, could I turn this off?

>I think there are lot of advantages of using one app for all notes, and that's part of why I made thinktype. It means you don't have to ask yourself where to write something down and where you did write something down.

That's the idea behind most note-taking apps like iOS notes or Bear or Google Keep. You can use tags, ad images, lists and so on and so on.

But I dig that there are no folders or separate notes in your app, just one roll.

> It does work offline

That's very nice.

> In thinktype, you write and search using the same field

For my use I wouldn't care about search much. Most of what I write is one-time information like a phone number or some shopping list. Sometimes it's a thought that I just want out there but it has no value beyond that moment. And if an idea can be used in some of my projects or become a seed for one, I'd want to catalogue it using a structured app like Evernote or Standard Notes or any other.

> Can you post a screenshot? Just sent you in an email

I tried Thinktype on my iPhone — added a shortcut to homescreen. 1) I need to tap screen to start writing 2) I need to save what I wrote — can autosave happen in a browser app? 2*) Save button moved off screen to the right 3) I think new text should be at the bottom like in chat apps, but maybe it's just my taste 4) I presume it wouldn't work offline?

I'm looking for a quick notepad, so that time between having an idea and writing it down is minimal, like using a camera on a smartphone. App is a must, because I have a phone nearby most of the time. In terms of UI, I don't want to select note, name it, I just want to open it and write like in a paper notebook. Digital is better because you can write in one hand in public transport. Ideally this app is just blank space and cursor is automatically placed one line after previous note — so I don't have to tap screen and double enter to skip a line.

It’s probably because your friends chose to sync contacts and your phone was number was there.