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Clean Twitter(X) without clickbait and AI engagement

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Genuine question. Would it be cool to have "clean" twitter - a service that does not promote engagement and does not use AI to make it addictive. No video format. Short posts. No algorithm to show posts, only chronological texts from people you follow. Like "bereal" but for text. For people who want to have interesting thoughts and discussions, but don't want AI and clickbait. And maybe some transparent, crypto-based system to reward people based on post views.

Do you think a platform like this can get a large audience?

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> No algorithm to show posts, only chronological texts from people you follow.

That's not a social network, that's just a group chat. Which is native to phones and most messaging apps.

> And maybe some transparent, crypto-based system to reward people based on post views.

Half of the clickbait and AI spam that occurs on social networks is because they get financial rewards for doing it.

I think the original social networks including facebook and instagram showed posts in historical order. Only later to increase engagement they moved first from historical to some algorithmic way to show posts from people you follow, and then later included the posts from people you do not follow. And then tiktok pushed this to the maximum and started showing you addictive stuff without you ever needing to follow anyone. So the idea is to go to the original version.

The difference to the group chat is that you see posts from different people you follow. Every user has his own unique set of posts based on people he follows.

So far, I haven't found anything better than collecting individual RSS feeds that I like. Mostly personal blogs, a bit of HN of course. It's not a "platform" of course, but it's very future-proof

Minus the crypto, it's called Mastodon. And I hope it never gets a large audience because that will just ruin it.

That's a good example, very close to what I was thinking

This already exists, for the people that want it. It doesn't have a large audience.

for example?

Mastodon, Nostr, GNU Social, Steemit, Coil, Bluesky, Second Life and Hacker News, to name a few.

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