Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter
I think you&#x27;re jumping into the technical bits right away without thinking through requirements&#x2F;features. Maybe we (the royal &#x27;we&#x27; as in all of humanity) shouldn&#x27;t have a public town square?  When you build something to have marginalized voices be heard you are also including <i>all</i> marginalized voices.  The MarginalizedVoice super object has EqualRightsForSquirrels as well as HatefulRacistUncle child objects. There are very valid points, that people don&#x27;t like to hear, about how the concept of someone&#x2F;group choosing what MarginalizedVoice gets heard and what doesn&#x27;t isn&#x27;t fair. If the basis of a platform is &quot;public town square&quot; you&#x27;re going to have to deal with <i>all</i> MarginalizedVoices.<p>Content moderation (incl comments)  doesn&#x27;t scale so don&#x27;t build something with public town squares.  That&#x27;s only a feature platform builders want in order to sell advertisements. If the thought of not having an ad-driven platform leads you to &quot;users won&#x27;t pay for it&quot; then maybe think of a platform users would pay for or some other way to have it be sustainable.