Twitter accounts are actually channels, but Twitter, Inc. wants to trick its users into interacting there, making new friends, etc. This isn’t how Twitter is meant to work; however this tricks a large part of its users into giving too much priority to using it, over other channels (like RSS) and communities (like Element).
(Hot take: artists should use
Comradery instead, their followers’ sense of their time is worth much more than 1€/month.)
The most blatant issue with
#Twitter is that there’s currently no way to tweet into a copresence metaphor. Mastodon fixes this with
local TLs but this seems to work mostly for communities that bond and interact outside of Mastodon (e.g.
bsd.network).
Something that’s cool with Diaspora* is the clear difference between channels (posts) and social interactions (comments), in part because you can’t like a comment. I’ve considered copying this on
#ActivityPub with a FEP draft I haven’t sent (proposing a "Reply" type that you can’t fav or boost), but I’d rather find a way to apply this concept to ActivityPub "naturally", e.g. digging in the direction of the local TL.
#mastodev #FediverseFutures