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Unethical Thought Experiments: what if Twitter shrank the retweet button or hid it under the fold to but the brakes on the viral spread? Put amplification behi
by marchdown 6y ago
Unethical Thought Experiments: what if Twitter shrank the retweet button or hid it under the fold to but the brakes on the viral spread?
Put amplification behind a trivial inconvenience that would make knee-jerk retweets less frequent and allow the whole chain reaction to cool down.
- dropofwill 6y agoInstagram doesn’t have a share/repost feature, but people still do it a lot, either manually or through 3rd part integrations. This leads to other problems like blocking someone, but still seeing their content because it gets reposted a lot.
- meheleventyone 6y agoTwitter didn’t either in the beginning.