A few Twitter migrants have told me, "I don't care about all this Fediverse technology, I just want to remake Twitter."
You can't remake Twitter. It's impossible. An understanding of the technology will demonstrate why it's impossible.
The reason why the Fediverse cannot be Twitter is because they're trying to solve different problems.
Twitter: To collect and publish data through a centralized service, for one corporation to exclusively monetize it
Fediverse: To disseminate data through a decentralized protocol, allowing *anyone* to build with it
@atomicpoet The underlying problem that society needs solved is the rapid spread of and discoverability of trusted information. Neither solves that problem.
@askquantum Technically speaking, you are right. However, in practice, things are quite different.
As I said, Twitter is a publisher masquerading as the public square. It editorializes. It chooses what you see in your feed through algorithms, and bad parties exploit those algorithms.
On the other hand, the Fediverse is not a publisher, it is a delivery system. Publishers, such as the New York Times, could act as publishers on the Fediverse.
But will they? Only time will tell.
@atomicpoet it's interesting. I've got a fully-federated zero trust peer-to-peer messaging capability where the user, not just the device, is biometrically authenticated, all content is stored locally and the servers just ensure the delivery of messages they can't read. It isn't designed for discovery - everything is closed membership groups. I think a marriage might be possible.
