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syncmaster913n | 3 years ago

> but this "we interrupt your tweet thread for sponsored content" style tangent is a bit annoying

I found this hilarious. I don't use Twitter and so was unaware that these annoying tangents are common on the platform. As a result, I thought Yishan was using them to illustrate how it's not necessarily the content (his climate initiative) but a specific pattern of behavior (saying the 'right' thing at the wrong time, in this case) that should be the target of moderation.

In real life we say: "it's not what you said, it's just the way you said it!" Perhaps the digital equivalent of that could be: "it's not what you said, it's just when you said it."

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bombcar|3 years ago

And it's funny because if you could "downvote/upvote" individual tweets in that tweet storm, his "off topic" tweets would be downvoted into oblivion.

I think the fundamental problem with the internet today is that by definition almost, ads are unwanted content and have to be forced on the user.