When I write, what I want is links. Not from Twitter, or even from here, Mastodon. I want pieces of text that link my pieces of text, that I might link back to in conversation or from a writer I might read and link in the future. I want tendrils from individual human minds, rather than graffiti on undifferentiated scrollwalls. There used to be a symphony of links, melodies playing out over time and space, each of us could jam. There might be again.
@interfluidity So you want a journalistic Wikipedia?
I tried to build something like that a while ago (highly-connected variation of SubStack's model with a writer-driven recommendation algo), but ultimately was discouraged because I don't have the requisite VCs/millions to fund marketing to get it off the ground.
@LouisIngenthron (i really don’t want a platform at all, just a heterogeneous lot of quirky, different things all of which are promiscuous in linking to one another.)