mungojelly ·
Like this! This doesn't even seem weird here! I'm just continuing to talk.
mungojelly ·
Twitter has a similar mechanism, like both technically & socially it makes sense to respond to yourself, but there it was just a compensation for how you can't write much in a Tweet, & they eventually made it into a mechanism where celebrities can use it to pump out a bunch of engagement targets simultaneously.
mungojelly ·
Here somehow it more feels like it makes sense to just start talking with yourself, but then other people can interject & you can branch thoughts off--- I guess something about the interface makes it feel more like each reply really does start its own new space, vs everything feeling crammed into The Replies to one primary central The Thing.
mungojelly ·
OK like one difference yeah is the liveness of it, b/c one way it feels different is that I'll be trying to rattle off a thread all by myself like you'd do on Twitter, but then someone will interject something. In comparison w/Twitter it feels like an interruption, more feedback, more dialogue, someone else can immediately say something and then they're the second thing in the thread you started & you're in their context,,,, that's the way that it's more like chat, more interruptible, more inclined to dialog, even though it has a threaded shape to the interruptible back-&-forthy conversation.