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I think we should abandon whole idea of feed. Instead give me people/account/tag specific feed like Instagram or WhatsApp stories. With this I choose what I want to see. It would drastically reduce noise and my time on platform. The platform should be delight to use not something that is constantly trying to suck me into drama. This would also eliminate need of Big Graph Services. reply I believe that a platform which doesn't have such financial incentives could produce a different spin on an algorithmic feed which isn't as unhealthy. I also believe it should always be optional, and transparent. I probably wouldn't want to use it - I'm only interested in what the people i explicitly follow have to say. reply reply It's still unclear to me how the federated economics will work out reply reply reply reply reply reply - Decentralized email (with a gateway to legacy email via the @freenet.org domain) - Decentralized microblogging (think Twitter or Facebook) - Instant Messaging (Whatsapp, S

I still don't comprehend why Dorsey didn't just try to make the largest ActivityPub server on the web. Instead we get a haphazard rewrite of everything ActivityPub has already solved and a zany "you need an invite to get into this club" airdrop that feels dated to gmail 20 years ago. The service feels too much like "Elon bought Twitter, now we need to make Twitter again". That Dorsey is the principal investor makes it hard to think that it is anything else. The only market it seems to be gaining traction in from my perspective is millennials who have nostalgia for old Twitter -- and as…

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