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I also have a reasonable expectation that HK is FOCUSED and CIVIL. I do not have that expectation on Twitter.

Twitter is just a raw society fire hose and I'm fine with that. I think the future is to give SUPER clear power to individuals to manage their own experience. Freedom of speech is both the right to speak, but also the right of the listener to hear (or not hear) as an individual.

I would also love to see twitter evolve to become more substack-ish where communities are more "owned" and moderation is delegated to communities to determine rules based on trust and shared goals vs. just blanket twitter safetytism.

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> I think the future is to give SUPER clear power to individuals to manage their own experience. Freedom of speech is both the right to speak, but also the right of the listener to hear (or not hear) as an individual.

That's the road to filter bubbles and radicalization because people never realize how obnoxious they are to real society. You can always find a few hundred other extreme fringe and deranged people from all over the Internet, while if you tried saying that stuff in real life, your community would slap some sense back into you. Online you can just block and move on and never face consequences, so you develop this righteous attitude that you know it all and you get validated by other loners from all over the world.

I think the only good way forward can be a return to physical spaces. People will realize this more and more and there will be some sort of hybrid approach. Actual real life communities are important.

Sure, niche hobbies may not sustain a large enough community in each little town, but do we really need to specialize so much? Does that really improve our affairs? Couldn't people compromise and get into some slightly different but still adjacent hobby?

If you could 'subscribe' to a moderation service on Twitter, much like you used to subscribe to the editorial board of a newspaper, that might work.

It would make the right-wing less up-in-arms about censorship by unchosen companies. And create more space for various viewpoints.

At the same time, it would create even stronger bubbles.

This is actually a wonderful idea but also somewhat like giving the keys to the kingdom to theirs parties.

If a Twitter moderator is anything like a Reddit moderator, good luck monetizing those millions of tweets people post every day.

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