"Most people want to opt-in to what they want to follow, be that a news feed, a celebrity, a friend, or family. Most people do not want to be force-fed a constant stream of manipulated content to catch and keep their attention."

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@purism The thing I love the most about this is how closely the Smilodon fork has been designed to mimic real in-person interactions--you don't have a "timeline," you talk to people that you know, they mention things other people told them, you go talk to those people, etc...it's all very organic.

The thing I don't like (or that remains to be seen) is how I can't interact in groups with people. The Fediverse essentially uses local servers/timelines for this purpose. But if I want to talk...(1)

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@purism ...about carrots, I want to go to a "carrot" server, or a carrot group. I want to talk about carrots with people who I wouldn't otherwise talk to unless they were talking about carrots, and I don't care to hear from unless they're talking about carrots. And the same is true for those who follow me: they may like some of my content, but not the carrot posts. So to me, there needs to be a better way to discover, participate in, and isolate discussions of interest than hashtags. (2, end)

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