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Isn't it ironic that this page only has so far: * A blog (which solved the issue of "everyone having a place to express their opinion" about 20 years ago, but
by phtrivier 4y ago
Isn't it ironic that this page only has so far:
* A blog (which solved the issue of "everyone having a place to express their opinion" about 20 years ago, but fell out of favor because it required time and thoughts, gave too much power and responsibility to authors, did not gave enough power for a central capital monopoly to fully monetize it)
* A link to a twitter handle (which solved the issue of "let's push my content in front of people that might be interested because their friends are interested", at the cost of optimizing for toxic filter bubbles and anonymous bots trolling each other.
It's really funny to see people wondering how they're going to salvage twitter or replace twitter, improve twitter, etc.. when times are giving the occasion to do the bold thing : get rid of twitter. Log off twitter. Start a blog, subscribe to interesting people's blog, maybe resurrect a half-decent "social network of blogs" that would bring memories of Google Reader.
Maaaaybe, add a "x people read this" and "y people hates that" counter if you want, to satisfy the author's ego ("Other people like me !") and protect reader's ego ("I'm like other people !"). This also gives you a tool to prioritize and monetize _the list of blogs_, if you're okay to become the Sheppard of a thought bubble. But, to the world at large, "virality" is a bug, not a feature.
* A promise to leave moderation to instance owners, but have an API to delegate moderation to "us", which is still not the time-proven solution of "judges from a branch of government telling the law written by another branch of government, whith decisions enforced by yet another branch of government, where government is ideally democratically elected" - but I suppose that in a century or two, we'll get there.
* No solution to the two real power of twitter :
- giving random Joe's a way to insult celebrities and politicians
- giving journalists around the western world something to talk about without having to read hard and thoughfull content or leave their desk
* Also, no software (yet) ?
- bentt 4y agoYeah this feels like a rush job to take advantage of the moment, but they're really not prepared with anything substantial.