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Fedi will never replicate what twitter had. Bluesky will never replicate what twitter had. what twitter had was special, and entirely circumstantial; any attempt to recreate it verbatim will only ring hollow. it was a happy accident and any attempt to build something like it with intention will inevitably fragment and lose the magic

and it’s not a matter of, like, “we’re fedi, we don’t want to be twitter, so this is good”; it’s that fedi is actively held back by twitter-like design decisions yet lacking in that same magic that made twitter work. it is trying to be “twitter but better” and is failing at both of those things

it is so easy to convince ourselves that twitter was always this shithole, a cesspool, but it wasn’t always like this. not more than any other social media site, fedi included. I can only really miss what was had, because we’ll never see anything like it again