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Wrote in my notes: "what is next? that feels like one of the main questions." and recalled I'd tweeted basically the same thing last night. Went to twitter to see if it had interactions... https://t.co/PAEprLubhZ
No interactions. Whatever. Getting the juices flowing. Now on twitter, click on my notifications and oh! much more important: @i_amm_nobody replying to me with an embed to an earlier @i_amm_nobody reply to @GRITCULT https://t.co/WRnarb11Jp
On its own, the above tweet embed will (I think) just render as another url. This is pure structure. And yet it's not just 301 redirects. It matters that I linked you to this particular locus in the rhizome, not the once-dereferenced version. https://t.co/abeIKnZsp6
This whole thing is a total mess though, in part because synthesis is very hard, and in part because there's no easy way to see which tweets are linked elsewhere. So you can go deeper down the rabbit hole into the past & the sources, but there isn't a button to jump UP. โ๏ธ
You can search the url of the tweet and find references, but you have to know to search it, and it's still cumbersome. This tweet, this very tweet, could be referenced a thousand times in other tweets and you'd never know to look at it. But that changes the context!
I have no idea why Twitter doesn't add such a feature. Okay, fine, I do ๐Maybe it's political stuff re "subtweeting". Maybe it would be a tipping point of too-much-complexity for most (particularly new) users Maybe they *want* you to get lost. Maybe it's good for selling ads.
There's the Gruen Effect, which talks about this in the context of malls. > "The Gruen transfer is a psychological phenomenon in which an idealized hyper-reality is realized by deliberate reconstruction, providing a sense of safety and calm through exceptional familiarity." https://t.co/eAvRwYr00P
Wow, check out that description. Surreal. Could probably apply to twitter. (I notice as I'm saying "Wow" that my body & facial expression appear relatively neutral, as they were a few minutes ago. This created a question of "is my wow authentic?" ... & I'll just leave this here)
That desc also reminds me of @vgr's Future Nauseous & normalcy field concepts. Twitter is like a commercial airplane. It's capable of incredible shared-meaning-making possibilities; due to general pressures, reins itself in to avoid people getting queasy. https://t.co/vzQtZtsrhQ https://t.co/DAqTMGbn0D
This thread is exceedingly meta-since the original @GRITCULT / @i_amm_nobody threads linked were about this concept for a better interface for twitter that I've had. My interest in that continues growing as I think about it more and user twitter more. https://t.co/uzePO4f8F6
@GRITCULT For linear threads: @threadreaderapp. @kriskarzy For branchy conversations: Treeverse https://t.co/fX76jMpXuP I want an app that lets you send tweets in-thread while browsing tree-wise, and would contribute $200-500 towards someone making it. RT if also interested. https://t.co/0hcfmoZnez
And yet, I'm not quite at this point shifting gears to work on it myself full time. What am I doing, with today, even? Which brings us back to https://t.co/PAEprLubhZ