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So when people on social media notice how social media fails, even in not too advanced ways, is it our fault as programmers? Designers? Who designs Cultural myths like Apps and social media designs like “feeds” and threads ? 

The issue here is that comment threads are a phenomenally complicated type of conversation with no equivalent in the real world

If you pick a leaf node, you can read it fine as a linear conversation from the root. If you start with the root you're screwed

_Twitter_ comment threads are, sure, but that's a choice they made for who knows what reason. Pretty much every other major web forum has clearer comment threads and are generally not all that ambiguous

Here's a project I saw recently, it tries to reify the underlying graph: <https://man.sr.ht/~whereswaldon/arborchat/|https://man.sr.ht/~whereswaldon/arborchat/>

Twitter comments are especially complicated now because they went from being trees to being potentially cyclic graphs (if you consider both quote-tweets and replies to be edges). A pet project of mine is a tool for visualizing the tree portion of the graph (i.e. ignoring the quote tweet edges): <http://treeverse.app|treeverse.app>