in my memory the continuous creation and abandonment of social platforms was just part of the natural ebb and flow of the information super highway. but i'm in my 30s. and adults a decade younger than me have had twitter for as long as they've been connected to the internet. for many of them, i think speculating about a twitter collapse has them confronting a type of finality for the first time. and i empathize with that.
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I was thinking about this earlier today, at least the ebb and flow part of things. I feel like we're perhaps entering the Second Great phpbb Era (mastodon instance edition)
Twitter came out in 2006? what the heck, it HAS been around for ages. Yeah this has to feel a lot more impactful to the younger folk
I feel like I'm in a weird middle-ground where I went through a lot of social media when I was younger, but have had The Big Sites around for most of my Internet life, and have gotten so used to just...being able to find Bigger PersonalitiesTM I wanted to keep up with on one of two websites. With Twitter going through a tailspin and Facebook having a bit of a rough time, I wonder what it's going to mean for just being able to discover creatives who are trying to make a business online, as well as just seeing people scatter to different sites and not wanting to make 5 accounts to keep up with...it's very strange.
Along with the feeling that in great migrations in the past, people all seemed to be migrating towards more or less one other place (though maybe I was just young and had a very small circle of awareness). This sudden scatter to so many other places feels new to me.
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