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Nov 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I shared a post that said this yesterday, but just pondering it -- while Twitter feels a bit more like 10 in a box talking about Elon Musk, maybe we should counter that by all actively sharing and amplifying each others' stuff much more. Not relying on the algo but each other?
I know lots of people are really worried about losing reach, so maybe for a bit we get out of our lanes and start asking others to share things more? I have to run just now but I'm going to start by boosting a couple of things I meant to share at the weekend.
Oh! Just realising I'm saying we should occupy Twitter with love and care for each other - something I strongly recommend here link.medium.com/CgYg03aXKub 😍❤️ #occupywithlove
If being on Twitter has radically changed your professional network, maybe you could pass that on, and every day help build the network of those who need it - share one thing, ask others to share one?

Dammit, let's start a hashtag like it's 2010! #sharethelove ❤️

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Nov 7
Quite a new old-school internet people have been talking about how slow and tentative early twitter was, and how they didn't post much or have an account for a while. I def spent at least a year not committing. And that worked well when the market was maybe 100x smaller than now
The single greatest thing about Twitter is, I think, the depth, richness and extent of the networks it offers, and the big mistake was probably trying to fund that through ads.
Honestly, I can't even look at this site without making a typo.
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Nov 3
The more I ponder it, the more "Twitter as coffee house" makes sense, because it points to the difference between its value to shareholders/owners and users.
As a shareholder/owner, even if you recognise the intangible value of a place to hang out (and I think Musk does, on some level), that's not where you make money. You don't need to charge entrance if you're selling enough coffee (or ads).
A load of us want a place beyond the ad-funded economy, which is always going to be extractive (because, hello! That is how advertising works) but we don't know what that looks like.
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Nov 3
These two tweets are next to one another in my favourites, and I think together they do a good job of pointing to what might come next. This first one is about whether or not celebrity content creators are paid for being on here
The second about the diversification of platforms and broadening out of the creator economy
Lots of us stay on Twitter because of the social capital we have here. Other parts of the creator economy involve financial capital too, and the fact that Twitter doesn't has - so far - set it apart.
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Oct 27
Something for your morning coffee. ☕️

A new essay by me for @jamestplunkett's @jrf_uk series on social justice in the digital age. It's about the importance of building digital realms beyond capitalism to create a more caring digital society careful.industries/blog/2022-10-s…
In the first part of the essay, I draw on feminist scholarship to describe how a digital world that exists *only* in the market is bound to trick us into thinking and acting like we're tiny gods
careful.industries/blog/2022-10-s… PURPOSE: We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So
In the second part, I suggest 5 infrastructures to support a more caring, feminist web of Webs
📶 Universal basic digital access
🌍 Decarbonise hosting and hardware
🛠 Decouple digital skills from STEM
💒 Grow the alt-tech ecosystem
📜 Shared governance
careful.industries/blog/2022-10-s… 1. Universal basic digital access 2. Decarbonise hosting and
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Oct 26
You know what I’d like? To be able to set an expiry date against a person’s details when I add them to my phone contacts.

I mean, sure it was useful to have the number of the person I rented that holiday flat from in 2011 in my phone when I got locked out, but
I’m never going to call them again. I couldn’t even rent the holiday flat again by calling them, because I’d need to book it through whichever holiday flat website they used, which I can no longer remember the password for
I mean, obviously, I don’t want to auto delete everyone (if nothing else, that’s too much like the premise of a cheesy sci thriller, where I accidentally murder people by autodeleting their phone numbers)
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Oct 26
This is anecdotal, but I’ve seen a recent lurch rightwards in the comments made on here by some Conservative and adjacent people I (used to) follow. An increase in culture war hazing and what I perceive to be hateful comments.
I’ve unfollowed a bunch of people because life is too short to have that kind of bile fill my timeline everyday, but it feels really important to address the fact that standards in public discourse rely on people in public life upholding those standards.
This @CLASSthinktank “Divide and Rule” Playbook has a very accurate analysis of the kind of thing I’m seeing more and more of. classonline.org.uk/pubs/item/the-…
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