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.
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.
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.
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)
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. :)
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.
I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
What do you do when someone you've had circled for years decides they no longer want comments on their posts and, therefore, turns them off for each new post? Keep in mind, this is supposed to be "social" media.
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1060511898347692032.html
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1060925606966296576.html
But yes, G+'s comments system is far from ideal.
On a side note, it took me three - 3! - tweets earlier to reply to a simple request from someone on Twitter.
Ridiculous.
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.
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. :)