[MBCook]

I’m worried.

Twitter is special among all social networks. It’s text based (unlike Instagram/TikTok), not tied to your real identity (like FB), but has a powerful social graph.

I don’t know what could replace it if it went away. If the users I care about go, they’ll go to Mastodon, Instagram, private Slacks, and some will flat out stop.

They’ll never be in one place again. I won’t be able to get random nuggets of jokes or really interesting threads by experts or do many other things I love about Twitter.

Metcalf’s law is too powerful. It is, for better or worse, irreplaceable. It has its problems but Twitter still feels like bits of the old “fun” internet to me that we’ve lost in so many other ways.

I don’t want to lose it, but I have little confidence it will remain.

[dyingkneepad]

Text based? It may have started as it, but my timeline is 90% pictures, gifs or videos.

[MBCook]

Not mine. I get some, maybe 20-30% depending on the day (not including link previews). It all depends on who you follow.