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That looks really nice - thanks for trying to fix this. I really like your straightforward home page. In case this is useful my concerns would be on seeing you

That looks really nice - thanks for trying to fix this. I really like your straightforward home page. In case this is useful my concerns would be on seeing your home page - Is this going to go out of business in 2 years and lose my stuff? Do I want to pay to post drivel about my life, and retweet the odd thing? I don't really use twitter for personal blogging, and don't think I'd pay for it, but it's really interesting to see that there are probably several different audiences using twitter for such different things and your service is aimed at a different segment. The value in twitter for me is the posts from prominent people in various industries who expose what they're really thinking, their foibles, interests and links to interesting research they've just read. I put up with all the drama, nazis and ads for that alone. I use several accounts to follow/promote different interests, and for some businesses, but wouldn't pay for personal use. Personally I'm really skeptical of a federated network, it's a solution to a problem I don't have, which introduces other problems, but it's not a blocker, I just think it's a distraction to the real problems of social media.

chipotle_coyote 8y ago
To clarify, this isn't my service. I'm an early adopter, but it's created by Manton Reece. (Long ago he created a web service called "Tweet Marker" that a lot of third-party Twitter clients used to sync reading positions.) So I have no idea if it's going to go out of business in two years, although I guess I wouldn't really know that even if it was mine. :) Those are always the big questions -- is the service viable, and are you going to use it enough to make it worth it? (And those two questions are connected, since enough people have to say "yes" to the second question to make a "yes" to the first question possible.) I still use Twitter, and I use Mastodon, too, although I'm less sanguine about Mastodon than most of its proponents seem to be.

chipotle_coyote 8y ago

To clarify, this isn't my service. I'm an early adopter, but it's created by Manton Reece. (Long ago he created a web service called "Tweet Marker" that a lot of third-party Twitter clients used to sync reading positions.) So I have no idea if it's going to go out of business in two years, although I guess I wouldn't really know that even if it was mine. :) Those are always the big questions -- is the service viable, and are you going to use it enough to make it worth it? (And those two questions are connected, since enough people have to say "yes" to the second question to make a "yes" to the first question possible.) I still use Twitter, and I use Mastodon, too, although I'm less sanguine about Mastodon than most of its proponents seem to be.