Have I mentioned how much Twitter sucks? Sure, it's great for broadcasting, but actually having a discussion? No.

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Have I mentioned how much Twitter sucks? Sure, it's great for broadcasting, but actually having a discussion? No.

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Chris Kim A said…
abysmal as a conversation tool
November 23, 2018 at 10:39 AM
Roberto Bayardo said…
Feel the same way. Everything on Twitter is so damn shallow because of the platform's limitations.
November 23, 2018 at 11:04 AM
Chris Kim A said…
It's fantastic as a college dorm laundry room bulletin board though
November 23, 2018 at 11:06 AM
Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter said…
Bodhipaksa it's ridiculous though that you need a third party app to make conversations on your platform somewhat legible.
November 24, 2018 at 6:02 AM
Bodhipaksa said…
Filip H.F. Slagter That is true.
November 24, 2018 at 6:18 AM
Alexander S. Kunz said…
Filip H.F. Slagter Bodhipaksa because the threaded conversation view on Google+ is so awesome... oh no, wait, it's non-existent actually. SCNR! ;-)
November 25, 2018 at 3:59 PM
Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter said…
Alexander S. Kunz that'll always be a difference between topics and threads. At least G+ has formatting in its comments, and supports long-form replies rather than having to split it over multiple chained comments.

But yes, G+'s comments system is far from ideal.
November 25, 2018 at 4:02 PM
Jason ON said…
Alexander S. Kunz you don't need a threaded view on G+.

On a side note, it took me three - 3! - tweets earlier to reply to a simple request from someone on Twitter.

Ridiculous.
November 25, 2018 at 4:04 PM
Alexander S. Kunz said…
Jason ON I always found that, when conversations got longer it's impossible to "jump in and catch up" on Google+ - who said what in reply to whom precisely is impossible to figure out - at least if you're not IN the conversation right as it happens and is "active".

Maybe it takes time to get used to how things work on Twitter, but I find its conversational features quite useful, actually. You can click on individual replies & see where the conversation went from there in the thread view, right on the site (I don't use any social apps on my phone so I don't know what it looks like there).

I don't have longer & more meaningful conversations on any social media site anyway, and I always wonder why people are SO eager to bury conversations in some social networking site they have no control of.

If it's something meaningful that I have to say and want to preserve, then I post it to my website (or personal blog) anyway.
November 25, 2018 at 4:14 PM
Alexander S. Kunz said…
Filip H.F. Slagter most things I have to say in a casual conversation easily fit into Twitter's 500 characters, or I can "thread" them by paragraph (and maybe add a /1 /2 /3 etc. for those who catch up later). I guess I'm fairly used to it because Twitter is by far my favorite social site.
November 25, 2018 at 4:16 PM
Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter said…
Alexander S. Kunz 500 characters? AFAIK Twitter's limit is still 280 characters?
November 25, 2018 at 4:42 PM
Alexander S. Kunz said…
Filip H.F. Slagter oh you're right! I have no idea how I got 500 in my head... must be because 280 feels like so much, still. ;-) (especially since the @ mentions don't count anymore)
November 25, 2018 at 4:47 PM
Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter said…
Alexander S. Kunz maybe because Mastodon has a 500 character limit instead? :)
Mastodon's 500 character limit better suits my needs, though I still tend to run into it. I'll probably end up running my own Pleroma solo-instance with a much more increased limit, and federate that with Mastodon instead. :)
November 25, 2018 at 5:20 PM
Jason ON said…
Alexander S. Kunz I'll agree that some of the longer comment threads on G+ can be cumbersome to follow due to not being able to pick up where we left off, but 280 limit is just non-conducive to a discussion.
November 25, 2018 at 5:49 PM
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