My take on Elon's offer for Twitter
<i>&gt;My most immediate takeaway from this novella of a thread is that Twitter is way overdue for long form tweets!</i> (Musk&#x27;s response)<p>this may very well be the first thing in my life I&#x27;ve agreed with Musk on. By god scrolling through an entire essay chopped up with random replies and profile links thrown in because you have to click &quot;show more replies&quot; (which pops up twice?) over and over is awful. Just link to a Twitlonger.<p>On yishan&#x27;s actual points I agree though. Companies moderate haphazardly and improvise and they care about their bottom-line and to extinguish shitstorms. There&#x27;s no coherent ideological bias on any sufficiently large social network, they just pivot to whatever is causing chaos on any given weekday.<p>One important point stuck somewhere in the middle is his observation that in the physical world, no public square, or public debate looks like what&#x27;s on display on internet social networks. All of them have rules, civility is a thing, if you&#x27;re crazy someone&#x27;s likely going to throw you out, there&#x27;s identity instead of anonymity and so on. Maybe provocatively, &quot;cancel culture&quot; is simply culture. Culture is a bunch of rituals, rules, coercions, customs and traditions that predominantly tell us what not to so so we don&#x27;t behave like a bunch of naked apes.