Twitter is bad but I’m realizing that if it dies then there will be zero mainstream social media platforms where NSFW content can be posted without restrictions (reddit doesn’t really count, it’s a combination forum host/link aggregator), and that really, really scares me with regards to where we are at as a society.
I am reminded of the famous burrito test, which states that “if you cannot get up at 3am and microwave a burrito, you live in an institution”. I propose an analogous maxim for community and social spaces, both online and offline; if you cannot post hole for your friends to see, despite your mutual consent, you aren’t in an “open social platform”, you are being farmed as somebody’s product.
(via grandiose-fevers)
