I kinda agree Twitter was born of a more innocent age, and he was just a tech kid with a good enough pitch to get Silicon Valley VC. The problem is that he did little to rein in powers that were purposely using the platform for social manipulation. Then -- when he already knew better -- he went and started Bluesky, which he specifically said was going to counteract all of Twitter's deficiencies, but capitalism got the better of him, so to make the platform attractive to VCs, advertisers, whatever, his team started to ditch what made Bluesky unique in favor of business tools to help it make money. Business is gonna business, it's not 100% his fault, but I can't imagine what will change a 3rd time around.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I’m not sure he’s the one who fucked it up.
140 symbols and the whole atmosphere I don’t like, but I have my own fair set of disorders.
Hashtags are honestly a good idea, just like a social system organized around them.
Except I probably would prefer that to be similar to modernized Usenet. Actually going to pressure my family members to install Briar, want to start using it, and apparently it has such a functionality. Not sure yet. Anyway, the framework under it (right now Briar itself is the only application, but authors have ambitions) definitely would support such a thing. Maybe I’ll finally have an incentive to learn Android development.
artifex@piefed.social 19 hours ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Well, that Bitchat thing of his may (after, eh, fixing a lot of it) turn to be not so bad.
Though I went to the Briar site, and apparently it’s not just Briar, but also a framework for virtually everything communications-wise offline-enabled.
monogram@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
Good luck if someone picks an iPhone.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 15 minutes ago
I dunno, Java to native code compilers exist. Maybe one can compile Bramble into that with some interface wrapper, and then use it under iOS, but I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about.