Dave Winer replying to my post yesterday:
The way the twitter-alikes do discourse is not the only possible way, and imho, and, as I’ve said before (in 2007!), most of what passes for discourse on twitter is actually spam, and that goes for Masto, Threads, Bluesky and Facebook (aka FriendFeed).
I’ve long thought that platforms should be free to evolve in their own ways. Just like we don’t need a monoculture of a single dominant platform, we don’t need a single UX either.
@manton This isn't a critique of anything in particular, but just curious about how you lead and decide things for Micro.blog the app and community? Do you have people you talk things through with? Or some sort of "council" to go to? Your gut? Or something in between?
@manton I don’t know how Dave is defining it, but I see precious little spam on Mastodon.
It’s not about having a Twitter-like UX or not, it’s about incentives.
Spammers actually get blocked here, and the culture here is blissfully spam-averse so reports happen frequently.
There just isn’t any easy way to make money from it.
@iChris Some is my gut. Some is listening to people and seeing how to Micro.blog-ify feature requests. We also have an internal discussion board which I will bounce big decisions off of. An official council would be nice!
@manton Thanks for all the work you do. Even if you enjoy (most of?) it, it's still a lot I'm sure. And I was asking mainly out of concern or respect for you than any amount of worry about you making a bad decision.