Barriers to entry, even very low ones, are still the secret sauce of good internet community.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/12/replies/
Twitter's original sin was putting the posting form above the rest of the conversation.
When you make people to scroll past your words before getting to the posting form, like on a blog, there's at least a chance they'll read some of them before talking back.
Unfortunately, most social media copied Twitter, not blogs, so they're about talking first and listening later (if at all).
@fraying I would counter that Twitter's sin was the character limitation because restricting people to short exclamations meant there wasn't much to read in the first place.
Yes it's about talking first at that point because without long form content people were not given anything to read in the first place.
Instead they were encouraged to just add on more incomplete thoughts to the incomplete thoughts already in the pile.
