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twitter circles were good because you could just… give people who seem to like you the option of getting to know you better, without actively having to approach them about it. i mean i never used them for this but, ahh, it would be so useful to me right now
i now have 2,600 followers on twitter, i can't do things quietly any more ;w;
(why did i cross-post this to the fediverse, it's a very different social context and this complaint doesn't really apply here in the same way)
circles are dead and the heyday of twitter alts is clearly ending but they still have no good replacement. i'm so sad.
(i wanted to make an end-to-end-encrypted app that replicates the twitter alt experience, but i don't have the network effect magic pull that'd make all my friends and potential friends use it, and i'm already at risk for OSS maintainer burnout without dabbling in cryptography)
@hikari I wonder whether you could hack this in on top of fedi software's support for private posts (as in, a circles post can be a private mention to each follower inside the circle)
@eta oh you definitely could do that though i am not sure i'd recommend doing it unless you can make every client out there display it in a non-confusing way
@hikari @eta the protocol could handle it pretty easily, it already treats “who was mentioned in this post” as its own field, so it would just need to use that properly (though I think it is more complicated than that)
the big issue is mastodon refuses to acknowledge that field in the UI, at all
(it also doesn’t really fix the fedi-specific issues with alts, which are related to the threat model; the threat model here is fine for me but definitely not for everyone)
@saagar hikari_no_yume horny on main arc???
@saagar this is… specific
@hikari you're still very right tho. fedi would still hugely benefit from circles
@hikari Getting to know people is hard because you can only really do it in smaller, more intimate groups.