If you want Twetch to be filled with content you find valua…

There's a wrinkle here, though, because if certain content isn't posted to Twetch, how do you reward it?

You can't.

People need to make an investment into alternative content posts, and build engagement the old fashioned way.

There's another problem, though.

I have an established content type that I post, and that's what my current audience expects from me.

If I branch out to other content, I might alienate my current audience. Experimentation is disincentivized.

For this reason, we need deeper content filtering, both on the creator and consumer sides. Qualitative filters for specific creators (following) and topics, where you can follow only content of a specific topic or type from a given individual.

As regular users increase, one would expect subject matter variance and its rewards to content creators in the varied topics will also increase.

But this is a very hard problem, and it creates psychological costs to posting. More work, design of content feeds, etc.

I think it would be worth it, but only with good defaults that work for the vast majority of users without thought.

Agreed. See the rest of the thread for the next challenge that gets in the way of varied content types.

That said, @852 will likely further develop and deploy strategies for enabling findability of aged, quality content as new users onboard so that they can more easily engage and grow activity in additional topics of conversation.

Micro-transactions open the door to market driven solutions to the problem that weren't previously available. It should be interesting to see what time and experimentation lead to.

Yes, I think they have ideas on this front.

I'm trying to get others to start thinking about this, too. Foster good Twetch business sense by getting people working on it before Twetch gets it released.

Absolutely. The field is open for creative solutions, but people have to put in the work to make it happen.

It's not enough to talk about it... Gotta make it, too.

Absolutely. The field is open for creative solutions, but people have to put in the work to make it happen.

It's not enough to talk about it... Gotta make it, too.

Good thread. I’ve been thinking about this for a while; groups and topic subscriptions and encrypted messaging for DMs & groups. It is challenging. It also creates the problem present in most, if not all social media, of reinforcing filter bubbles.