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Twitter

Use Simplified Twitter extension when I browse Twitter on Safari in separate window (with jk keyboard binds to move between tweets, l to like, b to bookmark, r to reply). And official app on iOS.

I like Twitter as it's currently sadly still the best place to stream your thoughts to public and have others interact with it in real time. Nothing yet comes close to the network and UX of Twitter for doing this.

However, the fact that Twitter is a private company now owned by a person who has a tendency to go back on what he says, lies in public, bans accounts of competitors and those who criticize him publicly without ways to fight back is worrying. I hope Twitter takes steps to change this as trust lost takes long time to fix.

I love the idea of freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach whereby anyone can have a voice but the platform won't boost hurtful or perhaps verifiably incorrect rhetoric. Twitter's Community Notes is great in that regard. Will see how Twitter fares at making this work.

Mastodon is interesting alternative but needs smoother onboarding, client UX and ability to have 'public likes' for it to ever make me want to use it more. I get a lot of my content from seeing likes of people I admire.

I am trying to build my own app with a network of people that's based on sharing your learnings and ideas. You would be able to share notes, ideas in similar way I do here in this wiki but more streamlined. With everything being open source.

One thing I dislike about Twitter is that it gives you no tools to actually build some kind of knowledge system off your own or other's tweets. A dream Twitter like network in my eyes would treat knowledge as first class thing, from which you can share parts or all of your knowledge with all or 'publish/tweet' parts of it out to your followers. But also have a place to catalogue, share and callaborate on ideas together.

Twitter will always have a special place and it will be hard to beat it at what it does best despite the fact that it's not transparent and not open source. But will see. TikTok showed that it's possible to disrupt even such giant networks if you position/market your product well.

One example where Twitter not being open source is horrible is that I find it frustrating that Twitter iOS client doesn't have the ability to long press like icon to bookmark. If the code was open source, I would have gladly made PR for this already. For some reason non official Twitter clients have worse UX feed content so moving from official clients is a non solution for me. It'd also be great if when you visit Twitter profile, it would tell you instantly if that person is added to a list of yours.

In many ways it's a matter of time that Twitter gets replaced with an open source transparent protocol that mimics all the UX features of Twitter. Innovate or die.

Official Twitter TS SDK is nice for building things on top of Twitter.

How does Twitter work is nice overview of Twitter tech.

Bird SQL is nice way to search Twitter.

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