Part of what makes X so shitty to use now is that there is no sense of shared reality on the platform

With Twitter, we had a solid veneer of truth that 80% could reach consensus on

Now, it’s a thousand fragments of reality trying to coexist (they can’t)

The people crave a retvrn to an internet that feels real again

friendly neighborhood shitcaster // working on @pinetree

how far do you have to go in Twitter history when "80% could reach consensus"?

probably more than a decade

it's not X who killed consensus, it's the attention-based algos who incentivize fragmentation

you get what you incentivize

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I remember Twitter during the 2016 election quite well

people were already living in parallel universes then

by the 2020s it got even worse

maybe some pockets were less polarized but by 2020s I don't think there's was much to hold together

5-10 years probably 

The fabric definitely frayed, but Twitter tried to hold onto sense making into the 2020s