When you reflect on your time on sw, what stands out the most?

@Sicarium it was more diverse.

@SW-User Maybe, but I think people on EP were more willing to entertain different ideas. Although it wasn't perfect by any stretch. I still kind of hope SW will develop into something more like that though.

@Sicarium but why were people willing to entertain more ideas on ep? What changed? It wasn't too long after ep closed that sw came in.. To make people change so drastically.
I think it's because we lost the diversity of people.
What do you think?

@SW-User I'm honestly not sure. Maybe it's just the layout and how SW groups aren't really used much. Maybe it's the Twitter effect, short and emotional gets more attention.

I could be wrong, but I don't think it's diversity. Until someone tells you, you don't know which diversity checkboxes they tick. They're just an avatar leaving comments and replies. You can deduce some from that, but not everything. And I don't notice a lack of diversity on SW; although I'm not really interested in immutable characteristics, so I might just not notice.

I know several people that migrated from SW to EP, people that did engage in the bigger idea conversations on EP. They don't on SW as much, if at all, and that includes me. So maybe it's just on the users, including me.

@Sicarium hmm.. Something has to have happened to change behaviour.

Mystery remains.

@SW-User Agreed. I suppose it's also possible that the memories of EP don't quite match the reality of EP.

@Sicarium I read somewhere... when we lose something that was a familiarity to us, whether a person or a place, we immortalise it in our minds. Meaning, we focus on the good of it than the bad...and in so doing we never get over it or nothing ever compares to it.

@SW-User Now that is very true.