Is it just me or are all of these "new" micro blogging platforms just trying to recreate RSS feeds. You take a few pieces of relatively simple tech and wire them up and you have solved the "decentralized social media" problem. RSS, Webmention, Webfinger, and WebSub (formerly PubSubHubbub).<p>Create a better "RSS reader" that is more Twitter timeline interface and less email "folders" and you have it.<p>Also for the love-of-god can we dump the hokey @username@hostname mentions and just use username@hostname like the internet at large has used for decades. username@hostname is NOT only for email addresses.
I've put a lot of thought into the problem with current social media and the evils of the attention economy.<p>The feed view is the problem, I would much prefer pintrest style view where each person I follow will have a card with there latest txt update. The cards would be in the order of newest to oldest. Follow 100 people, have 100 cards on a single dashboard.<p>Cards will not be lost in the ocean of unordered timelines/feeds.<p>Clicking a username will show that account's timeline of all posts (paginated if needed) with the ability to sort by ascending or decending, and keyword search a timeline (simple full-text-search).<p>The workflow: as a user I check the main homepage dashboard with pintrest style cards, the newest posts front and center at top.<p>Cards could be clicked to view responses and usernames could be clicked to view an individual's ordered timeline.<p>At a glance the reader could quickly determine if anything new is posted.<p>If you want to hear more about my idea let me contact me (details in my profile).
It should be “No ads, no tracking, no content, only your data!”.<p>Key value of Twitter is community and huge user base, I don’t see any point of using any copycat if there’s no one to follow. Same thing is with mastodon, sure there are few communities of devs and other wizards, but most of them are furries and other edgy and crunchy stuff for niche communities. And, that’s fine, at least for them, but most of the world just want to follow their loved artists or other creators.
I'd be interested to hear how this compares with Mastodon[0] -- based on a quick look, they seem very similar.<p>[0]: <a href="https://joinmastodon.org" rel="nofollow">https://joinmastodon.org</a>
btw the original twtxt is <a href="https://github.com/buckket/twtxt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/buckket/twtxt</a>
"No ads, no tracking, your content, your data!"<p>I'm not sure that's a compelling reason to move from Twitter. A better argument would be a business/development team/research team/college class/student organization wanting a Twitter just for themselves.