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> Nothing about this sort of interaction is baked into the protocol as far as I can tell yet FB insta snap etc don’t work this way. It's baked into the UI. Pub

> Nothing about this sort of interaction is baked into the protocol as far as I can tell yet FB insta snap etc don’t work this way. It's baked into the UI. Public by default. Facebook is personal by default. You post stuff on 'your feed', you view 'your friends' updates. Late in the game Facebook realised this was a problem and has tried to cram other stuff into people's feeds - viral content. And people hate it. People want their Facebook feed to be stuff from people they know and they see the other injected content (meme groups, assorted interest groups, comics, etc) as little more than extra adverts. Contrastingly Twitter was always the public firehose and so while many people do not care for it, those that do, are opting into it, not trying to opt out.

cmrdporcupine 2y ago
What's amazing is it seems nobody (big/public) is trying to really make a thing which is personal as you describe. It's all twitter rip-offs, microblogging narcissistic megaphone attempts. I don't care a bit about bluesky, and while I check on my Mastodon feed a few times a week I don't interact there much either. This "look at me, whole world!" phenomenon is of very little interest to me. I despise what Meta has become, but I don't see an alternative yet to FB.
- philipwhiuk 2y ago
  > What's amazing is it seems nobody (big/public) is trying to really make a thing which is personal as you describe. The problem is the monetisation of it.