Twitter archipelago
Dear Elon,
Rather than (or in addition to) a “For You” feed, you need a feed or feeds that help encourage the network to differentiate into a good number of somewhat independent clusters. (Maybe hundreds.)
Just as animal speciation requires separation, great ideas require that the social network not just be one big cluster, something that also makes mass hysteria more likely.
In fact, federalism itself follows this principle, and is the only aspect of our governmental structure that was effective against Covid mass hysteria: each state was somewhat independent of one another, and thereby able to evolve its own reactions to the situation.
More another time on specific suggestions for how social networks might be encouraged (consistent with free speech) to have many partially independent clusters.
I hope that we find the federalism you speak about here in Substack. But there is one more, fundamental reason to quit Twitter for Substack that people seem to miss. (beyond Twitter/X political sympathies, and censorship, and propaganda). In Substack/Bluesky you own your audience, while in Twitter you don't. Twitter owns them. The moment you quit, you lose all your contacts. I just wrote about it: https://4two.substack.com/p/how-to-own-your-audience
I would just like him to stop deboosting Substack!