Gregory's ServerThoughts on the #Twitter SuperFollowers / Communities announcement:
1. Integrating a Patreon-like model into accounts is actually an interesting idea. I dunno if it's great to charge for access to certain kinds of private content on a public social network, but for creatives and models, it could be interesting.
2. Somehow, they've beaten a good portion of the fediverse to supporting Groups, which is absurd. We totally had this in the bag, but we dragged our feet on it. Like, this could honestly have been a strong incentive to get people to get off Twitter, an actually good feature that they didn't have.
I think it's annoying that Twitter is doing these features, but they kind of make sense.
1. Integrating a Patreon-like model into accounts is actually an interesting idea. I dunno if it's great to charge for access to certain kinds of private content on a public social network, but for creatives and models, it could be interesting.
2. Somehow, they've beaten a good portion of the fediverse to supporting Groups, which is absurd. We totally had this in the bag, but we dragged our feet on it. Like, this could honestly have been a strong incentive to get people to get off Twitter, an actually good feature that they didn't have.
I think it's annoying that Twitter is doing these features, but they kind of make sense.
@sean I dunno about groups, seems like they've been the center of controversy for facebook quite a lot