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IMO biggest impact will be when someone makes a pleroma/masto like thing where user identities are masked.

So like, it generates random user ids per-thread, and when you click follow (incl. from another instance), it internally knows whose posts to send to you, but it'll just send everything to you using a random ID that you followed in the past.

Probably if someone you follow comments on a thread, it should just shoot you the OP of that thread instead of their comment.

If you unfollow an ID, it goes to the last thread it gave you with that ID as the originator and unfollow the user that caused it to be sent to you. So unfollow is a bit heuristic.
To expand on that a bit: With persistent identity, peoples' thoughts are filtered through a self-image.

To give an extreme example: look at L*nkedin. Everything is slop, because everyone's self-image on that wubsut is a "Good Team Member". Nothing unique or intelligent is ever posted because sharing unique and intelligent ideas with one's persistent identity requires risk-taking.

Another shit example is Instagram. It's all whores pretending to be happy. Why are they pretending? Self image. Therefore no honest signal can surface, the place goes to shit.

You want to remove the filter? Take away the identity, don't even ALLOW someone to say who they are. A thought stands alone or it doesn't, that's that. Risk of posting something unique and intelligent: zero. No identity, no risk. Value of posting slop: Also essentially zero. No social climbing possible.

This is why *chan culture drove internet culture throughout the 2010s. These days it's all undermined and controlled and full of slop generators, which is why federating it and bolting on a heuristic follow model would be a good idea.

Hmmm, been a while since I played around with them. I don't recall voting, it would be tricky with federation, you see 6 votes but I see 8, etc.

I mean they have an analog of subs divided by topic area, then threads are generated by a 'post' to which comments are replies.