Thread by @Shoq

Back in the day, @karoli and I would talk about "organic vs inorganic" tweeting, and the power of "discovery" of people and ideas.

The latter was something that made social media magically alluring to people who think about the social dynamics of tech and how … 1/7

@Karoli they both could be configured to make us a better society. The legendary @DaveWiner remains of the few visionary-type graybeards on Twitter who is still constantly thinking, questioning, inventing, and tinkering with the tools and ideas that once made web … 2/7

@Karoli @davewiner development feel like something truly important for humanity. Lately he's been wondering if "Web rings" were a better idea than we thought at the time. I think more than a few (abandoned or unevolved) ideas will be reborn as we tire of this tedious and limited … 3/7

@Karoli @davewiner social media ether that has barely evolved in 12 years. It wasn't really designed to be a well thought-out communications medium. It was designed to make billionaires out of a few young men. And it succeeded, just as all the other big social silos like Facebook and … 4/7

@Karoli @davewiner Tumblr have. But think of them like the robber barons of the 19th century, They scored big, but the oil. railroads and steel mills they built led to 125 years of new innovations that sprung from their primordial firmament. Twitter had that going with its Apps … 5/7

@Karoli @davewiner ecosystem, but it foolishly shut it down years ago. That was a huge mistake, but one I believe can and will be reversed. @green_footballs and I are building tools we hope will prove that point fairly soon. If the public gets behind them, we can all start to build … 6/7

@Karoli @davewiner @Green_Footballs something new and exciting on top of this stilted and moribund, bot-infested social media, Version 1.0. SM_2.0 can't happen soon enough for me. Stay tuned. 7/7