so the appeal of the hellthread is that it's the opposite of the typical shouting-into-the-void experience it doesn't feel stable/healthy how unevenly attention is doled out on twitter-like apps, sucks to be a newcomer
yeah, I've said this before... think it'd be cool if new signups were grouped into cohorts auto-following each other & encouraged to engage... less parasocial w highbies who can't keep up, more peers as potential frens
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Quote tweet · Nov 9, 2023yeah... i really think new accounts should get grouped into cohorts that auto-follow each other and for the first 30 days get a limited number of…Reply · Apr 14, 20236) lack of highbie-lowbie dynamic? imo twitter suffers from highbies becoming reactive n negative, common imo it's the scale itself- too many DMs n…Reply · Apr 9, 2023lol just need enough invites for favorite frens & scaling to go ok without UX miseryReply · Apr 29, 2023right that's what I was thinking - not everyone needs it, but ppl who have the big accounts have basically 100x hellthread notifications any time they…