Why I can't have conversations using Twitter

That's the thing: Redis has no read repair strategy. Redis has a "be an exact copy of your master" strategy. It's not a secret. It's the exact design.

The complaints are like yelling at Linus when you rm -rf / your entire machine. Sure, it sucks, but it's a repercussion if your own actions, not a fault in the system. If you don't want to rm -rf / your machine, go use an OS designed for babies (cough ubuntu cough).

(Plus, there are already Redis improvements (designed within a day or two of the original problem being reported) to provide workarounds to users who _do_ want to run that exact use case. The answer to problems is solutions—not complaining and blaming endlessly.)

"the 99% percentile is bad" in a more negative way than he intended?

Text. It's only text. You can't read the intonation and people want to read absolutes. People want to read anger. Always anger. Always confrontation. It's possible the author of the text didn't mean to insult your mother. Breathe. It'll be okay.

The entire goal of the Internet is to get ALL THE ATTENTION YOURSELF. If anybody hates you online, it's because you got attention and they didn't. Nobody hates insignificant people. So, often times people with lower profiles/attention in conversations will try to increase their attention profile by arguing/hating the high-attention people.

If people hate you, you've already won.

RSS and Atom allow for people to tell the people on the other islands about what they wrote but it's a one-way message. For an interaction to occur someone has to go over to the private island.

With blogs the entire process of publishing, reading and responding is privatized and fragmented.

Twitter is a centralized location that unites publishing, reading and interaction in one faux-public location. There is utility in these kinds of social networks. The issue is that they are not public places.

Twitter controls how the information is written and read. Twitter optimizes for their own private interests that have nothing to do with intelligent discourse. In the early days, Twitter was an open platform with a large number of competing clients. Early users and developers invented the core interactions that we see now see on Twitter. Hashtags and retweets were not invented by Twitter.

Twitter has since put their API on lock down. They alone have the right and ability to make clients. As a publicly traded company they're now required by law to create products that increase shareholder profits. The evolution of the platform is out of the hands of anyone but the managers of a private company.

I hope it doesn't come as a surprise that intelligent public discourse is not as profitable as the cheap and simple thrills that seem to be the core of social interactions on the Internet these days.

When I say something is a "Twitter problem," I mean that these patterns are less prevalent on other platforms. I mean that Twitter has created a scaffold for communication that encourages certain bad behaviors.

One example: If I were to pluck the middle sentence from your response and criticize you for saying that "Everyone is lazy" here on HN, I'd be down voted into oblivion because I am obviously being a jackass. Twitter's structure can make it very hard to see when someone is being misquoted or their views misrepresented. It's the Fox News Soundbite version of online discussions.