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@mutefall@twtxt.net Thank you for your thoughts on this and your write-ups! 👌 I couldn’t have said any of this better myself, and I really wanted someone else’s unbiased perspective on this as they’ve gone through it. Thanks! 🙇‍♂️

I will reiterate that many of the design decisions made are in fact quite deliberate and philosophical in nature and learn towards “how do we make a better more human social media” and “how do we make it as real and down to earth” as possible, “more human” friendly.

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@mutefall@twtxt.net This is also well said ! 👌 I like it, and you’re absolutely right. Under no circumstances will we ever fall into the gawd awful trap of “timeline manipulation” beyond sorting by time and hash or rendering as trees (as is the case in some clients already).

Not only should there be an end, the “system” should forget as we “humans” do. Yes we will bring in builtin search to yarnd so you can search the archives if you want to, but that should be your choice to do so, sort of like:

Hmm, let me think about that for a minute and try to remember!

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I should also add to this Yarn that there is a long-list of things to avoid that are “hard lines” in terms of what Yarn.social is, what it should be and what it will be (the specs, the ecosystem, etc):

  • It should be hard to abuse
    • no one person’s opinion is more important than another (top heavy posters, popular people, people in so-called “positions of power”, etc)
  • it should be your choice to post an opinions or share an idea or thought (not the other way around)

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and of course the obvious:

  • it should be decentralised
  • it should be easily self-hostable
  • it should be easy to operate
  • it should be easy to use

and above all:

  • there shall never be any tracking of user data or user behaviour
  • there shall be no advertising whatsoever
  • there shall be no corporate or political interests or influence

Yarn.social should remain free (as in beer), open source, open and transparent.

I hope it remains this way as we continue to grow! 🤞

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