Friend's tweet got me thinking how on old community forums, we'd probably be discussing DELTARUNE right now without a lot of the spoiler issues we have with public timelines.
Like, you'd make or join the clearly labelled "DELTARUNE discussion thread" or avoid it to skip spoilers
And okay, it was never quite as clean as that, but for this specific kind of thing, it's orders of magnitude better than "literally everything you want to say is on a public timeline and everyone you know will be spoiled" and just hoping they have keyword mutes or something
This goes for like, Smash too.
I absolutely don't begrudge anyone getting excited about it and tweeting (we're cool), but even my shortlist timeline was flooded with literally hundreds of smash tweets today.
I already struggle to keep up, and it really tanked my snr
And again, this wasn't spoilers! Nobody was being impolite! Just a side
effect of a subset of people getting excited at the same time on a medium where literally everything is public and blasted into everyone else's feed without any design considerstions for context or content
Anyway, what I'm getting at is that maybe the idea of a single monolithic networks fundamentally flawed, and there's value in different formats formed around specific interests and smaller subcommunities, tied together by a larger, general purpose public network?
Also, don't say "Reddit" - Reddit is just another monolithic network with slightly more dileniation between interest groups. But it's also a cesspool of terrible people who will never be moderated, and I refuse to join any Reddit community founded on $VIDEO_GAME because… reddit