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⌈ Secret Post #5795 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

What are the advantages Twitter has as a platform over Facebook, Reddit, or Tumblr?

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but tumblr is extremely image based. There are certainly disabled people who use it and I see people posting accessibility text but I would speculate that it’s probably very difficult to use with a screen reader or by someone with difficulty scrolling. (It’s the opposite of Twitter in that many posts tend to be very long.) It’s also overwhelming with many people posting and reblogging a large amount every day so it’s not as reliable a way to find out about or respond to emergencies as Twitter has been for some people.
Facebook is poorly run, period, and not a good way to quickly or reliably get information out either. At least it hasn’t been in my experience.
I don’t know a whole lot about Reddit and it certainly seems good for forum type discussions but I don’t know about anything else.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - I mean part of my point is that, regardless of whatever advantages or disadvantages Twitter has, the communities that have come into existence there are still going to be difficult or impossible to replicate elsewhere. That would still be true even if Twitter were objectively worse than the sites on your list in every respect.

But I also think that Twitter provides a specific experience that no other site quite replicates, and that works better for some people. Tumblr is a good website and I don't want to cast aspersions against Tumblr in any way, and it's probably the closest thing to being a Twitter replacement, but it's a lot more image-heavy and aesthetic, and doesn't have the same responsiveness that's created by the focus on short, quick text comments. Reddit is, again, just fundamentally different than Twitter, by design. Twitter focuses on universality and discoverability in a way that Reddit is not really designed to do, and the fact that people can pivot seamlessly between multiple distinct interests, topics and communities, all within the same shell, is really crucial to how Twitter works and the way that communities operate on Twitter. A single person can have multiple overlapping communities, share stuff easily across different communities, and has a significant amount of control of how they experience those different communities - whereas on Reddit, everything is siloed into distinct experiences. And then I think Facebook is just not well-maintained at all at this point.

[(Anonymous)]

In my opinion:
1) Twitter is one of few places where there isn't a "I reject this" function/reaction. Which to me is a huge source of comfort, because it's very "don't like don't read" so it allows free speech. On Reddit, there's downvoting and you can ask your friends to downvote a post so it gets hidden. On Facebook, you can react with angry emoticons. On Twitter, "ratio"ing a post (is a relatively new thing and mostly done by kids and) can be muted. It's not too different from Tumblr I feel, since you can just turn off asks or whatever.
2) Far less image content compared to Tumblr or Tiktok. Which is of utmost importance for the visually disabled (*raises hand* visual processing here) but I suppose it can be overwhelming to others too.
3) The community, really. Facebook is full of creepy geezer and nasty RLs and is terrible for privacity, same about Instagram while Reddit is better for privacy, but to the point that it's easy to create fake accounts in order to deceive others in there, and besides, the community is also pretty disgusting and full of dudebros really. Tumblr's community's biggest issue is the fact that it's completely stuck in a single (mostly political and very US-centric) mindset and reminds me of Livejournal for instance, it's a bit cliquey unlike other platforms mentioned.
4) The fact that "everyone" is on Twitter (ie. brands and celebs) and you can follow whoever you like to quickly check for news so it makes things easier for those who have issues with time or acessibility or resources. Also, you can check local news as well. And they're less biased (since you can openly manage the interest topics the algorithm assumes for you) than other platforms, in my experience.

[(Anonymous)]

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