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I think that at this point in life—after ten or so years of a proliferative mode in the online idiom—there is a craving to return to an earlier, slower internet. Before real chronology and temporal relationships were replaced with sped-up simulations of real-time.

Online discourse has an impressive ability to die on the vine, reaching its apex of visibility—and value—before it’s put to any discernible use.

Spend some time on Substack, then spend some time on Twitter (X) or Facebook or any of the rest—it’s easy to see this is one of the best places on the internet. That doesn’t mean it’s perfect. We are still trying to figure out the best way to handle extremism on the internet. But of all the ways we’ve tried so far, Substack is working the best.

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Earlier this year I was looking for this and didn't find an adequate solution. I believe that the Reddit-/HN-way of leading a community is quite productive. As the connection between a chat and a forum, it provides the perfect mix between a casual exchange and productive discussions.

Threads is adding view counts. This is probably a good place to put that my Threads referral traffic has completely cratered, as I knew it would. The decision to show view counts is, I assume, part of the typical Meta tactic to get people to care more about on-site engagement that any kind of real traffic.

I’m thinking to start a practice where I just write out responses to what I read on Substack in my logs. There’s no pressure to comment, or share, or advertise it or whatever. It’s just a semi-public, mostly unnoticed thought process to remember what I read and what I think when I read it. Maybe some of it pushes to Notes too… idk, well see.

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