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Journalists and politicians get all the attention, but there're a lot of other communities that are important here, too: - #BlackTwitter - Gamers (had to go somewhere after Miiverse closed) - Programmers - Diplomats (separate from politicians bc unelected) - Academics @PaulbernalUK/1587353426484203521Permalink On twitter.com
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To expand on some of those: - Re: programmers: Remember when GitHub was still new and it was trying to brand itself as a social networking site for code? Well you can't actually really socially network that well on it; you still get shunted here for socializing...Permalink On twitter.com
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...although, maybe there are some GitHub engineers out there who might be interested in seizing this opportunity to enhance the site's social capabilities? Just an idea.Permalink On twitter.com
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- Re: academics: Some people tried to make academia dot edu a social networking site for academics previously, but, like GitHub, they didn't realize get the "social" aspect right either; it became mostly just a paper-hosting site (more of the LinkedIn style social media)On twitter.com
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- Re: diplomats: I mention them separately from politicians because so far a lot of the discourse about the future of Twitter has been heavily US-centric, and people forget that this affects the rest of the world, too. There are communities in other languages here.Permalink On twitter.com
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- Re: gamers: part of how Nintendo justified killing Miiverse was that they'd just send us to general-purpose social media instead. The Switch's image sharer works with FB and Twitter currently; do they keep the Twitter part if the site becomes unusable?Permalink On twitter.com
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...if they remove it, that'd leave FB as the only place to share Switch screenshots, which... no. Just, no. I *really* don't want to have to use FB for gaming stuff...Permalink On twitter.com
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