I wish there were kind of a Twitter where people would just post their thoughts (even those controversial), there would be no marketing of any kind, no personality and no flame wars. And all the posts would be organized by subjects.
A microblog. But without strict length limits. Also without post titles. Without comments, responses and mentions. Without personal branding. Easy to discover together with many others. Easy to subscribe. Quick to read. Controversial thoughts allowed but guarded both against attacks by those who disagree/dislike and against abuse by bots/propaganda/marketing. Monetization/promotion not allowed.
Sounds like how blogs used to be (and even how Twitter and others were, too).
I wonder if the lack of interaction will just make people try to build workarounds to interact in other ways. For example, AFAIK, early Twitter had people use RT and other techniques to spread and/or reply to tweets even though the platform didn't have those functions itself.
How do you imagine this platform would deal with that desire to interact more with each other?
I think that can be accomplished with wordpress (or a similar blogging platform)...i suppose it would simply take tweaking the template/site settings to not expose features like comments, post titles, etc. Maybe wordpress might be overkill, but i think what you desire is achievable with an existing blogging platform out there.
As a reader I imagine going to a specific website, choosing a topic and immediately seeing a stream of genuine thoughts of many different people on it.
As a writer I would rather go to GitHub pages with a tweaked theme. WordPress is a huge overkill with a huge pile of problems.
> ...As a reader I imagine going to a specific website, choosing a topic and immediately seeing a stream of genuine thoughts of many different people on it....
I see your point. I made an assumption that the separate websites would in fact be separate, and not living under a singular umbrella of discoverable content. What you described is still achievable - either via walled gardens (where content is centralized and more easily discoverable), or through looser connections such as web rings, and even search engines. Also acknowledged that wordpress is total overkill...it was just an example that the tech exists to achieve what is desired. ;-)
