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With Twitter especially, like during COVID, it was my attachment to society and community. But Twitter really flattens everything. Like, a tweet from a real, expert doctor about a COVID study would come after a tweet from somebody who doesn’t know anything and was making a glib joke about COVID case rates. Now, I can tell myself rationally that one... See more
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
https://www.whatworks.fyi/p/im-so-over-this-or-the-trouble-with
I think Tara McMullin nails how I’ve been thinking about social media platforms and Substack. What am I going to do next? Write to my website developer and tell her to go ahead with creating a newsletter option for my website :)
Leaving the attention economy doesn’t mean vanishing. It means choosing to matter to fewer people, more deeply. It means owning the means of distribution. It means publishing like a human being instead of a content mill. It means you stop playing to the house odds and start building your own game.