It’s like a half-assed version of poetry. A lot of it’s a slog and a bad medium for good communication, but the restrictions of the form do occasionally produce really cool stuff.
twitter is the best major social media platform out there tbh
for all its bad takes and problems, I haven’t seen even a fraction of those gems on reddit or elsewhere
You see different types of gems from reddit, at least. It’s the home of the impressive effortpost with all the sources you’d ever need, and that can be useful in the right context. More commonly, it’s probably the best forum for approximating “real” back-and-forth conversations.
Now everything else…
I still think there’s far more good-faith discussion on twitter
and the lack of downvotes also adds to that, but a lot of it also has to do with the user populace
