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I've been thinking along the same lines. I really wished there was an open protocol that provides all of twitter's functionality (and no more, to avoid scope cr

by athenot 10y ago

I've been thinking along the same lines. I really wished there was an open protocol that provides all of twitter's functionality (and no more, to avoid scope creep). But as much as I hate to admit it, Twitter's value is Protocol + Moderation. I'm not savvy with their operations but having worked with other cloud platforms, I know that any platform that has even a modicum of visibility is immediateley abused in many ways that are hard to forsee. Malicious attacks against the platform itsef are also an issue. Email is a good example of open and federated platform, which unfortunately carries more abuse & noise than actual signal. I still think building a protocol that incorporates a form of moderation is possible, but I'm not sure how to solve this.

Tenhundfeld 10y ago
> Email ... carries more abuse & noise than actual signal. Really? That is not my experience at all. There was a span of years where spam got bad, early-2000's IIRC, but my email is now mostly signal and has been since since at least 2010. I think this is partially due to better spam filters, e.g., gmail was better than average when it went public in 2007ish, but also due to the rising popularity of DKIM and SPF. I see the abuse and noise out there on twitter and in comments sections, etc. I don't see it with email. I know people with big public personalities do get hate email and whatnot, but I thought for the average person, email was kind of a solved problem.
- athenot 10y ago
  That is indeed due to spam filters. Look at what a typical MTA gets before the filter kicks in. But to your point, maybe the same mitigation technique can be applied.