losing twitter is like losing the library of alexandria if the library of alexandria was 80% hate crimes but also 20% the most wonderful conversations and stories to ever exist
Some historians consider that by the time of its sacking, the Library of Alexandria had already declined in importance; the works considered important were already copied to elsewhere. So it's possible that there was indeed a lot of junk!
www.openculture.com/2022/03/what...
That’s kind of how I felt when I left Reddit over the api nonsense. Bummer to lose some of the greatest internet that ever happened. I never got the hang of Twitter but it does feel like end of an era.
I was on Twitter for 15 years, and I developed a community of very dear friends with whom I could share my personal joys and sorrows as well as discuss the issues of the day from a blue perspective.
Now there scattered to half a dozen platforms; many are still there, but I'm gone. It's a real loss.
*they're
(I don't know why I can't copy the whole thing to repost it instead of adding this correction, but it won't let me highlight. Does the Bluesky app not allow copying text?)
Ah, thank you Joey! I positioned the cursor and was pressing and holding like one does everywhere else to bring up the context menu, and nothing heppened. I'm pretty new, and not familiar with all the ins and outs. I saw the error (thanks, autocorrect 🙄) but couldn't re-do it. Now I'll know 😀
The Library was known to demand all books and scrolls from visiting ships, which were then copied. The library would return the copy and keep the original. Kinda a dick move tbqh.
I will mourn the golden days of Twitter forever. Has someone, somewhere, ensconced the Diamond Threads of Yore? (my favorite is probably those feral hogs, but everyone's got their particular beloved)
Deactivated yesterday after some tinfoil hat connected the death of a recently lost friend with another friend’s legal troubles(not remotely connected). And the whackadoodle pile on began. I guess I shouldn’t have waited for it to be personal.
Nowhere else could I learn about egg smell in the dishwasher, see horrors I never wanted to witness, annoy op ed columnists and shitpost in one, continuous stream of conciouness. Its what I imagine doing speed is like, but with information...
Oh! I did read it at the time but I'd forgotten all about it. Thanks for finding it, I didn't remember how it went so it was just as much fun this time!
That's already what the Library of Alexandria probably was. Same way the Nazi book burning of Hirschfeld's sex institute mostly burned eugenics research.
