With #ActivityPub, could you have no character limit for the size of posts but then have them for replies? Posts (like articles) should go viral, replies should make for a great conversation and not deter from further engagement.
I think the core of the #fediverse is virality, what I call #AttentionDemocracy. that everyone could be here. that we all could collectively what information, ideas and art becomes important in the culture. no longer mass media owners and advertisers.
but could conversations be better here? what if comments all worked like reddit? if only replies had up/down votes, otherwise everything flowed like mastodon etc. hashtags functioned like subreddits etc.
I'm working on something loosely related - a personal view of the Fediverse (called #Emissary) that feels a lot more like an old school RSS reader than Mastodon, Facebook, Xitter, and the rest.
It lets me curate the slice of Fediverse posts that I want to see and blocks out a lot of other noise.
I love it. Others may not. That's cool. Any population of N people will have > N+1 mutually exclusive needs.
I think that's the best we're going to get in any Democracy.
on an open system, I agree that no one is ever going to share the same experience (or want to). first off, we all follow different people. secondly, we're gonna use different servers, server software, apps, filters etc. but there's going to be a lot of overlap. that matters for people who want to be able to communicate and build a better culture and society. I'm arguing for thinking through systems and norms that best help us do that. I know others have other priorities.
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