Twitter must be the worst platform to hold discussions on ever conceived, even before it turned into a fascist echo chamber.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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Microblogging has always sucked IMO. It's always been more geared towards shouting your opinion and leaving, and it actively discourages any discussion by hiding reply threads and making it a nightmare to follow. Most people aren't ready for this take, though...
Bluesky has reply threads, but in general I agree
The whole idea behind Twitter (character limits etc.) was obviously a bad idea from the moment texting became obsolete thanks to IM services.
You mean because Twitter is an SMS-based messaging app?... The character limits are arbitrary, not a technical limitation. Which is why they doubled them at one point, I believe.
The limits were meant to act as a micro-blogging enforcement measure, for micro attention spans.
Actually, no, the initial limit was precisely because of SMS character limits - Twitter in the first few years had an SMS gateway where you could send a text and it would be posted under your account.
Obviously later on it was an arbitrarily kept limit, but the limit itself, even doubled, makes it a horrible platform for any kind of debate.
I see... TIL, thanks.
That's like saying that a battleaxe is too unwieldy for cooking. Yes you are correct, but why the hell are you using a battleaxe for cooking?
Use the right tools for the right job.
I think that's exactly what he's saying.
Seriously. They sent in a bug from a LucasArts game using a codec nobody uses anymore. You think that YouTube, Netflix, Instagram, anything with video, etc. would be a little more thankful considering their business is based on using FOSS codecs.
Corpos are all parasites
Corporate welfare for them, austerity for you. Tax cuts for them, sorry not enough to fund social security we'll have to raise retirement age or cut benefits.
...he had to keep explaining to his bosses that “They are not a vendor, there is no NDA, we have no leverage, your VP has refused to help fund them, and they could kill three major product lines tomorrow with an email.
(Emphasis mine)
Just chef's kiss, I love it.
Also, seems like a good time for one of my favorite relevant XKCD's.
Many in the FFmpeg community argue, with reason, that it is unreasonable for a trillion-dollar corporation like Google, which heavily relies on FFmpeg in its products, to shift the workload of fixing vulnerabilities to unpaid volunteers.
Google may once have felt an obligation to support the open source software they rely on, but that day's long gone. They have become nothing more than a skeleton of distilled capitalism, shedding any pretense of being of benefit to society along with their "Don't be evil" motto.
Google's behavior makes perfect sense with the understanding that every single move, no matter how small, is only about generating more revenue.
Capitalism strikes again