All attempts at a [socially] better twitter are doomed because we’re actually here for the worse. “Worse is better” for social dynamics.
The only way to unseat Twitter is to create a genuine technical differentiation (which mastodon almost did with federation).
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If your product is based on appealing to “better” natures of people along a dimension (say civility, intelligence) you’ll attract virtue signaling clueless types along that dimension, adversely select for hypocrites along that dimension, or outright bad actors good at faking it.
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Nobody ever went bankrupt underestimating the [insert virtue here ____] of the masses.
The job of good tech is not to make people good, but to use technical ingenuity to make average people act as though they are good, even if for the “wrong” reasons by your ethics
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For those in the cheap seats unfamiliar with the “worse is better” concept
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Hmm. Yet more fodder for #mediocrity here. I’m definitely the most mediocre champion of mediocrity, unlike that guy who ironically wrote a reportedly excellent book about it.
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This is a weird framing. Medieval cathedrals were designed to be inhabited by literally everybody. Shopping malls are only for people who like popular things and have money.
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