Lotta talk about replacing Twitter.
The better dialogue is how to get people to re-evaluate how they engage with the internet.
Personally, I'm convinced of two things:
- You can't 1:1 replace Twitter unless it's a similar top-down walled garden.
- Most people probably shouldn't want a Twitter replacement, since Twitter is bad for us.
Instead of finding/molding/creating a replacement, we should encourage people (and ourselves!) to focus on what they like most about internet interaction.
@danielfalk I have a literal ton to say about this; I'll try to be brief.
I think the nature of Twitter, or any "town square" kind of site is that it'll always be used by bad actors for mis/disinformation, brigading, harassment, etc. And those negatives should probably outweigh the positives (ease of use, simplicity) for most people.
Sites like Twitter can exist, but for many people they're the only way they engage with the internet, and frankly the internet has much better communities and experiences than Twitter.
Christopher
danielfalk