We’ll have to accept that some of the things that make discussions worthwhile; shared context, the presumption of good faith, the absence of audience performance, and the ability to change one’s mind; simply don’t scale well with thousands of people.
It was a good experiment.
There's a reason some of the best discussions have left Twitter and moved to groupchats.
I was reflecting the other day on how many brilliant minds have been chased away from a global town hall due to the level of toxicity on here.