After 20 years, it’s sad to say but I’m calling it:
Social media is fundamentally broken.
We used to complain about the shallowness it promoted and the diminished attention span it induced.
Now we’re at a whole new level of crap:
Ragebait, echo chambers, clout chasing.
Propaganda spreading like wildfire.
Your data exploited to the hilt and manipulative ads flooded into your feed by an algorithm you can barely influence.
And if you don’t like it?
Sure you can go to another network – but your followers and posts can’t go with you.
I think Discussional is the solution.
Discussion-focused posting, fully customizable feeds, built on the open AT Protocol developed by Jack Dorsey and Bluesky.
The platform is the product (and an awesome one at that) – not the users.
It’s almost ready for public signup. Right now we need 40-50 users to alpha test.
(Fair warning: that means there will be BUGS.)
Let me know if you miss having good discussions on social media and want to get in on the ground floor, poke around, and start a discussion.