On: Maybe Bluesky has "won"

[tolerance]

What I want to know is how did people come to believe that microblogging is a social necessity. How have we allowed for what’s perhaps the most impoverished form of human expression to become a gathering place for ourselves and our institutions.

[johnnyanmac → tolerance]

People don't like reading and pretty much all social media responded to that. At least Twitter was like that from the start.

[ndarray → tolerance]

It forces the blogger to get to the point. Even most blog posts shared on HN could have been a tweet or two.

[beeflet → ndarray]

I've got this idea for a toy social media network that costs ~$1 per byte to post. No advertisements. It would be like an experiment in how dense people could make posts. If you wanted to post an animation, you would post a javascript file like dwitter.net

Instead of having "upvotes" or "reactions", this function would be the same as replying a single char or two. If multiple people post the same thing (like "" ":)" "L"), it gets collated and boosted as a single message.

If you want to flex, you can drop $10,000 to post a 10kiB picture of your dog. Or spend $1000 to write an overly long post. But I imagine long posts would be seen as bougie.