Twitter was not bad because "hashtags this" or "trends that". Twitter was bad because:
1. Centralized.
2. They forced you to ID yourself with a phone number.
3. They hand your data to third party companies.
4. Most governments were using it to ID people saying bad things about them.
5. Ads and corporative campaigns.
@robots 6. Most of twitter user generated content is utter bullshit
@robots Indeed, but shitty/for profit platforms tend to attract more users. More people = higher chance to have shitty content (including advertisment posts "disguised" as "user content")
@devnull @robots also the way the platform is built can encourage a specific culture. example: if twitter hadn't added like/rt/reply counters, then it wouldn't have become a cesspool of "viral content". if twitter hadn't allowed for full-text search, then people wouldn't constantly namesearch for anyone saying stuff about them. if twitter hadn't added quote tweets, people wouldn't be so compelled to publicly dunk on everything
@devnull Again, that's not a problem with Twitter itself, but with the users.