Twitter's a company with such a strange relationship with the users of its own site.
I modded /r/Twitter on reddit for a year but burned myself out (I chose to de-moderate FYI) simply because Twitter doesn't care about its community or even recognizing the existence of the community that developed around trying to provide the support the company won't provide on its own. Perhaps my take is cynical, but I really do like the concepts of a social media service like Twitter. The execution of it, however?
Perhaps this is an outsider's perspective but it seems people who work for Twitter would rather pat themselves on the back rather than make improvements.
My complaint of the week - you can't say the words "hacked" and "account" without having scambots asking you to get in touch with "their friend" who will help you restore access to your account. or something. It's just a fucking scam.
Also, just look at threads in reddit flagged with the Bug Report, Complaints, or even Question flair. The users are just bewildered and the experience is 100% user-hostile:
Mastodon's wonderful and Twitter (or anyone, really) should acquihire Eugen Rochko.
If you're going to do the Steve Jobs thing and skate where the puck is going, you should be skating in the direction of ActivityPub. Definitely not in the direction of web3.
ActivityPub is awesome. I hear a lot of criticisms lobbed towards it (some valid, some pointless), but the idea of federation for a feed-based social network just makes so much sense once you start using it. People who like to hide away and form small circles of friends are given the tools they need to do so. Social butterflies who like to follow thousands of people from hundreds of instances can do as they please.
There's also so much room to expand. I'd personally love to see a Disqus implementation that uses ActivityPub identifiers to post comments.
> Twitter doesn't care about its community or even recognizing the existence of the community that developed around trying to provide the support the company won't provide on its own.
It's fascinating that such a community would even need to develop, but maybe it's because of the difference in mediums?
I'm working on an alternative and would love to chat if there's a way to connect!
I'm not sure if any of my insights are to be valued though. I'm just a cynical troll who thinks everything is terrible here. I'd suggest seeking out advice from people who aren't extremely online.
I modded /r/Twitter on reddit for a year but burned myself out (I chose to de-moderate FYI) simply because Twitter doesn't care about its community or even recognizing the existence of the community that developed around trying to provide the support the company won't provide on its own. Perhaps my take is cynical, but I really do like the concepts of a social media service like Twitter. The execution of it, however?
Perhaps this is an outsider's perspective but it seems people who work for Twitter would rather pat themselves on the back rather than make improvements.
My complaint of the week - you can't say the words "hacked" and "account" without having scambots asking you to get in touch with "their friend" who will help you restore access to your account. or something. It's just a fucking scam.
Also, just look at threads in reddit flagged with the Bug Report, Complaints, or even Question flair. The users are just bewildered and the experience is 100% user-hostile:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/search?q=flair%3ABug%2BRepo...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/search?q=flair%3ACOMPLAINTS...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/search?q=flair%3AQuestion&r...