The best way to handle content of mixed length isn’t clear—by length (and quality). Some short form content here seems like posts, with the downsides of not being able to view it as a post, and less engagement.
Rather than discussions taking place in places, it’s based around someone making a comment (in the set of all their comments sorted by time) and someone responding. The format is very different—if I want to read EY’s Twitter posts/similar stuff, I know where to go. Celebrities might be there for the less serious entertainment, or because it’s where everybody is, or for a lot of different reasons all of which are also there or conveniently linked to.
If intellectual engagement requires focus, mixing it with stuff that requires less focus might make it easier for people to engage, or enable different levels of engagement.
(Meta note: the commenting guidelines aren’t showing up on mobile—it just says “habryka’s commenting guidelines”.)
Possible benefits (or attractions) of Twitter:
Short term length.
Short/variable post length. (I’m just going to write/read one tweet...)
No voting.
People who are there.
Difficult to find things, unless directed there/but not too difficult. (Diaspora contained.)
Lots to find, different bubbles. (Lots of things.)
Pathologies. Perhaps drama = entertainment. (If you could be more specific, what pathologies?)
More modes of use and engagement. (Not all of which are freestanding—consider link posts.)
The format. (Reblogging navigation, also see Longer notes)
Word of mouth (or a digital equivalent).
Perhaps it’s used in place of/in addition to Facebook.
More casual content, and mixtures.
Visuals
Speed
Shooting in the dark:
Features for filtering? (Having discussions with who you want/with the number of people you want.)
The font + text size?
average post length (acts like bullet points) + cute avatars
lack of censorship?
Everyone’s there for the memes/low expectations about when content comes out.
Everyone’s there, not because of one thing, but because the medium is malleable.
Something to do with governance
Longer notes:
The best way to handle content of mixed length isn’t clear—by length (and quality). Some short form content here seems like posts, with the downsides of not being able to view it as a post, and less engagement.
Rather than discussions taking place in places, it’s based around someone making a comment (in the set of all their comments sorted by time) and someone responding. The format is very different—if I want to read EY’s Twitter posts/similar stuff, I know where to go. Celebrities might be there for the less serious entertainment, or because it’s where everybody is, or for a lot of different reasons all of which are also there or conveniently linked to.
If intellectual engagement requires focus, mixing it with stuff that requires less focus might make it easier for people to engage, or enable different levels of engagement.
And on desktop.
I do indeed just have some empty comment guidelines for this post, so this isn’t a bug, just me not setting the correct guidelines.
Seems like if the guidelines are an empty string it should probably display the default-guidelines.