Elon Musk's platform could learn a thing or two from its most popular alternative—like how to build a social platform people actually want to be on.
Any platform that supports free speech should have a content warning system pretty much like the one Mastodon offers. I bet Musk won't implement it, though, because his snowflake fans would find this kind of free speech upsetting .. You don't want to unfollow them, but you also don't want to deal with whatever thing they're currently yelling about. Maybe they’re endlessly discussing a movie you will never watch.
Mastodon allows you to mute people for a set amount of time—anywhere from five minutes to seven days—enough time for the person to work through whatever has them posting so much at the moment. It's a great compromise, and Twitter should add it.The purpose of Twitter's verification system, at least in the early days, was to confirm that a given account was actually run by a given politician, celebrity, journalist, or organization.
Mastodon doesn't have this problem. Third-party clients can do everything—and in some cases, more—than the official website and applications can do. It's refreshing, and something that Twitter should do to reward its power users. It won't, though. Because …On Twitter, you can follow accounts and search for hashtags. Mastodon allows users to follow an entire hashtag, so that all related posts show up on your home screen.
Now, I don't think Elon Musk is going to make Twitter free and noncommercial. It's a business, and he's a businessman—not an engineer, not a free speech advocate, and not someone who actually cares about community at the end of the day, regardless of his public statements. He's a money person who likes money and would like to have more of it .
And that's the problem: A town square, by definition, can't be a business. It needs to be a space owned by the people. That's what an Elon Musk Twitter can never be, and what Mastodon already is. I wrote about
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