Maybe because attention on Twitter (thus on Mastodon and Pleroma) is deliberately scarce, which makes valuable contents hard to find. A pretty bad microblogging service if you ask me.

@BonfireBuilders How do I see who own a topic? I want to contribute but there's no meta as far as I can tell.

Ok my bad, microblogging isn't a bad concept. But its current implementations (besides twtxt and bonfire) conflate the last three use cases.

Microblogging may be good, actually, but Mastodon and Pleroma keep me hooked as well, make me aggressively look for excuses to get people's attention AFK, etc. (Although I'm reading 1984 and that's enough to get mad.) I believe the difference lies in the intents I put when I write something, i.e. that Pleroma makes me write to get someone else's attention. The UX makes it different here.

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I've identified 4 kinds of social media users:

• advertisers,
• students and mums keeping in touch with (family) friends,
• entrepreneurs, bloggers, artists, and so on, trying to promote their "brand", and
• outcasts, looking for psychotherapeutic listening (deep, non-judgemental)

Microblogging was a bad idea not only in its usual "Twitter" user farming-inspired implementations but also because as the concept it is, it intrinsically conflates the last three use cases. However I'd like to suggest as well that social media can be genuinely good because they isolate people in small clusters, and this helps them to keep in touch with their relatives. Of course it's pretty bad for sharing online resources to a large number of people, this is why we've got blogs and Gemini, RSS/atom feeds, and links.

Trying to imagine a better way to navigate the #topic page and its contents.

The Topic page should ease the way of discovering / read about its main subject and navigate through sub topics.

Much improvements and neat features can be added, I tried to keep it simple to start the discussion.

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J'entends bien, mais qui achète ce pétrole (et surtout, qui pourrait s'en passer, qui ne peut pas et pourquoi) ?

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Topics are similar to the way a.gup.pe implemented groups on the fediverse. I think of them more like "federated hashtags".

You can include one or multiple topics (using + mentions, which share similarities with both @ mentions or # tagging) is the text of a post, and that post is still published in your timeline and your followers' feeds as usual, and in addition submitted (or published directly, depending on the topic's boundaries) to the topic's timeline and to followers of the topic.

This is different from typical groups where you usually post 'in' just one group at a time, and the group moderators sort-of "own" the post (they can delete it for example, whereas with topics they only control whether the post is shown/shared by the topic). This also does away with cross-posting something in several places, since one canonical post can be shared in multiple places.

In our implementation, you can also add tag something you or somebody else posted (depending on the post's boundaries) at any any time, not only when initially posting.

they share similarities, but the focus of topics is more about collecting and curating information to share with a broader scope (eg. all subscribed users) - think of it more as a "magazine" with its editorial team, or "channels" (like in several chat applications) but on steroids

Interesting! So it is like usenet newgroups a bit.

I understand "channel" has a one-to-many connotation that you probably want to avoid. But isn't this like "groups" then?

How would the hierarchy be formed?

ah the img previews are displaied in the wrong order, the fig.3 is displaied as the first one (the flow should be from the last image to the first)