nostr:npub18yl523aft0stkww4vr3dqxxafwjve6x3vrvsfa4hla698zp8gdqqy0pegw yes, it was always skewed towards being that, but it had a vital connection with a reality beyond that, which made it useful in other ways. 

And it still has potential for reaching out - I was looking at how the Austrian grocery prices scraper got picked up into mainstream media and politics, because someone saw it on Twitter last week. That's a core function which made twitter hugely useful, but it's decaying.