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Stephen Downes

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As Twitter limits the number of tweets users can view, this story reports that, "powered by Black founders who formerly worked at Twitter, Spill is opening the waitlist today for its upcoming social media app." I've signed up for the waitlist, though honestly, my patience with social media (even the good ones, like Mastodon) is wearing thin. Sure, some people post interesting things, but a sizable number simply post links to commercial media paywalls. It's lazy and unthinking and I think characterizes most posts from most people. It's why in OLDaily I prefer to accompany a link with an opinion (and, of course, to never link to paywalls). Taking time and care is less popular these days (maybe that's always been true) but that's how I like my media.

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