• eltrain123@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Outrage addiction is a real thing… and it is a driving force in both news media and social media.

    And I say that fully aware of the doom-scrolling nature of this platform, amongst others…

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      11 months ago

      Well yeah but for a variety of reasons, Twitter was shit. Worse than anywhere else.

      The design choice to strictly limit character length alone made it trash.

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        11 months ago

        The original posts were limited to SMS length because that was an interesting way to post.
        For awhile cellular data connections were expensive and very limited - so it freed people from thinking about the quality of their opinions vs the precious time and megabytes it might take to post it.
        You could just fire off a text from the toilet instead of having to think too deeply.