these parts of twitter

there's a motte-bailey here, and it's not pretty tbh. the acronym IS NOT SIMPLY SHORTHAND, when used publicly (it can be in private notes) because it creates an ingroup of people who understand it

and an outgroup of people who don't want to be called it

and meanwhile I've heard from various people, publicly and privately, that they don't want to be affiliated with "tpot"

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this is a situation where "this part of twitter" would be WAY better, because then in some sense "this part of twitter" ends up being *defined* by being the part of twitter where this is true (same as lemon's tweet about courtesy likes!)

this part of twitter → these parts of twitter

we're undergoing a transition atm

what unified "this part of twitter?"

the main thing, from my perspective, was a kind of self-awareness that we're creating the culture ourselves on here, and so we can make it serve us rather than just complaining about the birdsite

we needed a dense enough pocket in order to experience that together, which for awhile meant just a few thousand people, more or less central to the whole thing, and each with a wide variety of interests and approaches

we're now reaching a point where there are enough people around here that we can't all know each other

this mindtown is finally becoming a proper mindcity

and this means that pockets will start to emerge, of clusters of people with different variations on the same underlying cultural platform

my pocket: