Mastodawn

blaine Nov 19, 2022

There is a clear line between the cultural factions on Mastodon:

Community Groups vs Broadcast Social Media.

This tent has to be big enough for both. Thankfully, the protocols support this. @darius's Hometown fork of Mastodon is even better than Mastodon for small community groups (but still federates where you need it!)

We need a Mastodon fork (or AP server) that works more like Twitter, for more broadcast orientated individuals and organizations.

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shauncutts

@blaine @darius For all that people love to pick on "the algorithm" at Twitter, it did have a good effect of bringing in people and ideas in contact.

We need an algorithm with controls for people. I imagine training categories by example w/ combination of bayesian and collaborative filtering. Individuals' categories could be leveraged to build "community languages".