But twitter has a global timeline, spends lots of money on user acquisition and partnerships with major corporations to broadcast and manage events. Even if we

But twitter has a global timeline, spends lots of money on user acquisition and partnerships with major corporations to broadcast and manage events. Even if we assume that $200m/yr from OSM (which has a much easier job than Twitter, scaling) is reasonable, this new system people are proposing lacks a lot of fundamental discovery features that make Twitter valuable. And yet again, even if they are addressed then this means many more people would need to pitch in for the initial customer acquisition and community building. I know many people at Twitter who labor to do exactly that sort of thing to this very day. People buidling these networks think their technology is what's valuable, and there is a threshold of scale you have to meet (which btw, I do not think the projects involved here have demonstrated), but after that it's the community that has the real value. My experience with Mastodon is a blank screen with a single message from me, "I wonder how I meet people here?" Even the word "microblogging" captures fundamentally the wrong idea about what drives the core of twitter's community and engagement.