chamomile

Wool and wool accessories

Pronounced "kæməmil"


Large sheep the size of a small sheep! Likes tea, DIY, and nerd stuff. Sysadmin, release engineer and programmer by trade.


Personal Website
bleatspeak.net/

illuminesce
@illuminesce

Watching people leave Twitter has been, for me, like watching my local mall shut down. I spent my days in that mall and ran into a lot of people I knew or became friends with, despite the mall's purpose being commerce. I feel sad to let that go.

But it was a shopping mall. And Twitter is a platform whose survival depends on monetization. A shopping mall, and Twitter by extension, isn't defined by the amount of new friends and connections made there, it's whether or not businesses survive. And if they don't, the mall dies. This was always true, but for a while we fooled ourselves into thinking we owned the mall.

Check it out the full post on my blog.