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Proposal: remove Twitter from profiles
Seeing the option to list a Twitter profile on one's profile leaves a bad taste in my mouth given recent developments on that site.
I don't think it deserves to be promoted above other social media websites. Why have an input box for your Twitter handle, but not your Truth Social handle? (I'm being facetious to make the point).
Discord kinda makes sense, since the chat channels are on there, but I think Twitter has lost any special status it may have once had.
Proposal:
- Kill the input box.
- Add all previously input Twitter profile info to the ends of people's profiles (to avoid the problem of people not being able to modify/remove them once the input box is gone...).
e.g.
Twitter: [@previouslyInputProfileName](https://twitter.com/previouslyInputProfileName)
I definitively agree with the premise of the suggestion, but instead of getting rid of all/most additional input fields …
10mo ago
I am not a big social media user. I have a LinkedIn account (2 actually, because I have no reason to pay for it so that …
10mo ago
Get rid of all that stuff. Having an easy way to make a link to a few kaffeeklatch platforms that are currently popul …
10mo ago
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I definitively agree with the premise of the suggestion, but instead of getting rid of all/most additional input fields and instead of making it a per-instance/per-community thing (which both are generally good ideas), I'd go a step further and suggest to make it a per-user thing.
Mastodon has this feature, where every user gets four pairs of key-value-pairs which they can fill with arbitrary values. If it is a link—great, Mastodon will render it as such[1].
They are then displayed at the bottom of your profile (for my profile the metadata are the wwww.luap42.de, the verified website and the alignment)
I think this might be a good solution, because it gives maximum flexibility and customization. Maybe users don't want to post links to social media but instead want a link to their favorite music video, maybe they want to signify their pronouns, maybe they want to make a silly joke. Maybe they want to do all of that, because that would, too, be possible.
I opine that this is the best solution for ease of implementation (it's literally just eight text fields in the database) for ease of use (it's literally just eight input fields) and for powerfullness of features (it's literally eight input fields you can write arbitrary stuff into). I don't really see any disadvantage, if there are inappropriate contents they can be moderated away as any other profile contents.
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Also Mastodon has this really nice feature where you can "verify" the link if there is a matching
<a rel="me" href="{profile url}">element on the page, but this shouldn't be a top priority. ↩︎
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