Post by Roots

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Just my two cents.

One of the big thing that I dislike about using Twetch is the absence of algorithm. It's a platform where everything mixed together without filters. The "Trending" categories is not of my interests and only favours "famous" people.
Back then, the "Latest" section is not existent and to use Twetch we can only see posts that are in Top categories.
Most of the time using the platform, I see replies of other posts that are completely irrelevant to me. It's congesting the environment in the sense that, there are lesser discoverability for new users and people to connect with each other. In the current state, to get discoveries/impressions on the platform you are required to spam more, so you get exposed to the "Latest" category.
It's not an ideal social media for mass use, it's more of a junk factory that have not been filtered. I know that we have "Follow" feature to make us consume the content we like, but I haven't got into the stage of wanting to follow someone because I don't get to read their valuable content in the first place. To add on, not every person post frequently on Twetch.
I also understand that algorithm is not needed in the past, but now our users have grown a bit and that things are starting to get congested.

I know this is a new platform and new implementation takes time. But I'm just wanting to suggest something beneficial and share my thoughts so that we can make Twetch great again!!!

Let's dive into how different social media position themselves.

In Reddit, we can choose the content we like to read/post/see through a subreddit (communities). Even though the platform has "follow" feature, seldom do I use the feature as I only browse the subreddit I like.

In Twitter/X, I follow the people I like to see more of. But the design of the platform is such that, before following any individual we are required to discover people outside of our followings through either X algorithm or through the followed people that indirectly/directly promotes an individual outside of our scope.
That's how we connects with new people and obtain new information in X.
The platform also have algorithm that gives me more of the kind of topic I like to consume especially news.

In Meta, we add friends that we are already connected with IRL. Then we share memories or content with each other.

In Twetch, we are everywhere. There are too much "go with the flow" elements. Besides, following feature... I don't have a way of intentful browsing that caters to my needs. It's like going into shopping mall having every items everywhere.

I understand that Twetch does not collect your data. Therefore, the process of categorising people into segments can be difficult. Hence, the absence of algorithm.

I'm open to ideas and would like to see what can be implemented. Currently, Twetch favours spammers and large following people (design-wise). Often time, I do not read beyond 10 post in the latest section and I'll be done for the day.
In a global space (internet), we have people with different languages and timezone. It's harder to get discovery if information is so overloaded in the platform.
It's essentially a gamble of good information or bad information every time we open the app to browse. Either it's an individual who spams "Branch" or just some random people conversating through comments sometimes good information.

I believe everybody come to Twetch because we want to connect with like-minded people, learn, share information and also utilizes the beauty of Bitcoin. But I don't believe people come to Twetch to spam GM solely.

Here's my suggestion, is it possible that we utilizes a simple feature like #Hashtag to represent communities first? That we have a section for topic for example #BitcoinSV #Cats #Economics #Politics.
Or is it possible to crowdfund a community like subreddit? Because in the future I'm sure some content have to be moderated at some point. I think the days of hiring people in a company to moderate is so outdated. Reddit is kinda ahead of the information space imo.

So that we can discuss topics that we liked. 😉