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I'm returning to this thread the next day, in a way I'd do much more often if it were easier to preserve context and have ongoing convos over longer time frames on the purple app. :)
When I read your comment yesterday, my first thought in response was: "well, email is full of noise too..." But I was also trying to recall a blog post I read recently that agreed with your take and had some interesting things to say about the zeitgeist on the internet from where he sits. I wanted to dig it up and re-read it before responding. Here it is with some quotes:
"If you want to be an individual who writes stuff on a website who talks to other individuals about it, email, a webpage, and RSS do really well for that. You might not need more than that."
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"Here’s what stuck out to me about the *context* in which these posts are being discussed:
- These posts are all in conversation, almost all of them from the last few weeks, on static, self-made websites, and most of the authors insist on email as the main channel of response.
- People are having substantive conversations about a topic that matters to them, and being pretty articulate, nuanced, and respectful about it even when they’re disagreeing.
- The posts have reached people outside of the author’s immediate community without the authors promoting them on any platforms."
The post is worth reading in full, but to your point: I'm going to keep noodling on possible ways to use email to help stoke the long-form discussion on the purple app.
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