Previously I objected to Musk's "Town Square" idea: >The whole feed based "internet town square" concept is flawed, if anyone have seen an actual European town

Previously I objected to Musk's "Town Square" idea: >The whole feed based "internet town square" concept is flawed, if anyone have seen an actual European town square you would have noticed that it's nothing like Twitter or similar. In a good town square, you have people minding their own business and the public activities are actually curated(a few agendas that fit in the physical location) and people visit those if they they are interested in. However, maybe it is a town square but a bad one. Bad town squares are places where everyone tries to sell you something or make you do something and there are plenty of crazy people trying to grab attention and do things you would rather not see. My "for you" tab is filled with "ChatGPT is great but you are not using it right" posts that look like copycats, the only organic looking content is from anti-vaxxers and all kind of conspiracy theorists and fascist(maybe because ChatGPT refuses to generate such content, therefore the only organic content is that one). Oh an that is organic but not really authentic, that is it is not independent thinkers but solders of a cult or a movement that keep repeating same talking points. On the other hand, Twitter has become a better product overall thanks to making some stuff like lists more prominent so you have some tools to avoid the crazy town. However, the problem is that even the curated lists are not immune because now the people in those lists are incentivised to grab as much as attention as possible so they can monetise it. Thece are courses and tools made to optimize for that so the content becomes "made for Twitter to boost engagement". Youtube also has it but maybe of the higher production costs and longer to consume content format, a race to the bottom hasn't happen as dramatically. They still can get good engagement by creating higher quality videos. So what about actual people who don't produce content professionally? The actual authentic content? The authentic discussions are happening in groups of people who know each other(online or offline), that is WhatsApp/Telegram or other channels that allow small groups interact privately.