Let’s replace Twitter with something much better
So you need to pre-approve posts? It seems like this would only increase the &quot;echo chamber&quot; factor for the audience, since they&#x27;ll only see whatever opinions the author chooses to present in the comments section. I also don&#x27;t see how this reduces abusive posts or work for the author. The author still has to read each post to review it, meaning they&#x27;ll still see the abusive posts even if they don&#x27;t approve them. And the most viewed authors will receive far too many responses to sift through. If you get 2000 comments, then chances are you won&#x27;t view them all.<p>So when the problem right now seems to be that people aren&#x27;t being exposed to diverse viewpoints, I don&#x27;t think something like this would necessarily help.<p>I also don&#x27;t necessarily think that giving Twitter our public history is bad. I suppose you need an alternative if you want the things you type to be forgettable, but I&#x27;m not sure that represents very many Twitter users. If you are using Twitter, surely you intend to let people know how you stand now and how you stood in the past? There isn&#x27;t really a pretense of privacy with Twitter, and I don&#x27;t think there ever has been. It serves a completely different purpose from something like Facebook, where there is a greater expectation that access to your data will be limited.<p>The idea of a blog-based social media network already exists; it&#x27;s called Tumblr. I think Tumblr is much closer to meeting the needs of the Author, so maybe that is a better model to start from. Users have more control of their content there, from length of messages and mixing content to basic formatting.