The pessimist in me says they don't want to acknowledge any venues that they can't later try to manipulate an algorithm to control who sees what
@Muddobbers @dangillmor I think it's simpler that that. It's not the owners behind this, it's the writers. The journalists do not get fellated and lionized here the way they do on the corporate social media sites. They do not get the immediate elevated status they have come to believe they deserve, just for publishing listicle round-ups of "here's what people are saying on twitter" and calling that writing. Here, they're just punters. So this does not exist.
It's just ego.
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@jwz @Muddobbers @dangillmor Over and over we see people come here with the goal of growing an audience who then become angry when people engage beyond sitting back and consuming.
I've lost track of how many times I've heard that twitter was better because it was so much easier to ignore the people you were talking to.