There seems to be real need for a public digital infrastructure that Reddit and Twitter satisfied. I believe they're largely the same thing, as both enable thre

There seems to be real need for a public digital infrastructure that Reddit and Twitter satisfied. I believe they're largely the same thing, as both enable threaded discussions in a tree structure. Twitter of course is famous for its character limit, but this just leads people to create endless threads. And that limit has been softened at least twice. We don't give important infrastructure into the hands of single corporations (at least not without massive regulation) for a reason, so it should be similar here. But as we all know and have seen from Mastodon, federated solutions suffer from multiple issues: * moderation * spam * infrastructure * discoverability * ease of onboarding * deleting content I believe that the governments have to ease at least some of this. They build streets, canalisation, and so on, because we deem it essential. So they should at least provide some of the hardware for our digital town square. So maybe something like usenet, a network of nodes that synchronize where at least some important nodes are run by governments. The other points appear to be hard problems though.