Whoops, I didn't mean to make that point more depressing...one of the many downsides of living in a dystopia?

Twitter wasn't just fractured, it was *only useful* to the extent that it was fractured. As in: once you gained a certain level of popularity or a certain size of following, enough people would retweet you and reply that people outside your little sphere would start to see your tweets and you'd get a bunch of bullshit in your replies/DMs. That never happened to me, so twitter was pretty good for me: many friends had at least a few tweets escape containment and the moment that happened they'd get harrassed or dogpiled or something for having, e.g., unpopular but totally benign kpop opinions.

So in a sense I do think there's a trade-off with discoverability/open communal spaces and, er, the platform being not a nightmare to use. Twitter did not handle this trade-off well in general imo.

[I'm going to have to relearn reply etiquette on dw because the lj instincts are very nearly gone. Is this how it's supposed to go? I have no idea.]