You know, 'twitter' seems to be about tweeting or speaking, whatever that comes to your mind.

Can we have some kind of a reverse system that is more about listening and discovery?

Finding out what matters to people, who are allied with your current state of thinking, etc.  
I think this is also related to effective homepages and search engines - can we have homepage systems that are integrated with the accompanying search engines, so that we maximize our chances of understanding what others have in mind?Rather than just HTML, we make the whole thing built up from the ground so that content will be discovered and understood by interested parties. 

To function properly, this kind of system will have no advertisement or any form of influence or control, as that will add noise and make the system less effective.  It might be more compatible with federalism and democracy. 😄

As far as the buyout is concerned, my hunch is twitter is an uninteresting platform and billionaires can spend as much money as they wish as their latest vanity project - its relevance on society seems minimal? 

-Yasu


> On Apr 27, 2022, at 15:36, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss <libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> wrote:
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> 
>> On 26/04/2022 20:38, Adrienne G. Thompson wrote:
>>    Hi Thomas:
>>      If the FSF is not now going very hard on promoting Mastadon,
>>      they should never be trusted to anything right again.
>>    Why take such a negative approach? Why not, instead, propose a campaign
>>    to promote Mastodon? We are here to support the Free Software Movement
>>    - a movement that relies on contributions beyond code.
>>    Adrienne G. Thompson
>>    Principal and Chief Code Artist, GNU C-Graph
> 
> I agree here,  Mastodon does need content, it has that to a point as I subscribe to feeds from Sciencedaily for example,  but few people interact.  As far as I am aware people not exactly have long conversations on twitter either.
> 
> There are several forums set up to facilitate discussions on how the fediverse can move forward, I am part of both.
> 
> https://fediverse.town/
> https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/
> 
> As a platform,  or set of  platforms they can't move forward unless people say what they want, and help promote.
> 
> we need to perhaps coordinate efforts so a post from the fsf is boosted by the community,   for example.  but not over a period of wees but days or hours in some cases.
> 
> I tend to avoid mastodon,  as there are more people on there who seem to be anti vaccination, anti science and racist, so it doesn't help me,
> 
> Free software is just as much about the community of developers,  users,  creators etc as it is about the fsf,  who,among other things are trying to also enforce our licenses when they are infringed,  something individual users can't do easily.
> 
> Paul
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