– The Long Slow Death of Twitter
A safe space without shouting, fighting, harassing or advertising.
A place focused on people, conversations and sharing.
A place that keeps all the parts we loved about twitter and fixes what is broken.
A place that makes the right thing the easy thing.
A place where it's normal to take a step back when you're flagged, to apologise, listen and do your best to not fuck up again.
A place where you explicitly accept, value, appreciate and protect that your freedom to say anything you want can never be nearly as important as the freedom of others to not get hurt.
A place where people who don't accept this are not welcome and need to stay outside.
A place that is not build on how many are here but how they treat each other.
Yeah, yeah, I know. Words are cheap. Ship it. Can you even code.
Things don't start with git init though. They start by thinking out loud and having conversations.
Patent constraints aside, I want a community-governed twitter clone with a Code of Conduct and tools which enable the community to enforce it. I want its code to be governed by the contributor covenant.
I want it to be build on open standards, open software and portable formats. And where they don't exist yet, I want us to make them.
I will happily live with an install-to-homescreen web app and ditch shiny native apps, if that enables us to keep control of our community.
If you had to chose an existing FLOSS twitter clone to build upon, which one would it be and why?
Does this whole thing already exist and I just don't know about it? Do ten of them exist? Is a proper Code of Conduct and a flag button the only thing that's missing?
Who would you hope to meet in that new space?