@danieldekay

What we will need to understand is: a non-Facebook place will not be like Facebook. It may look like it, or similar, but it won’t be that.

This means. We will lose some things, and need to change some behavior and customs.

• It won’t be for free. Someone needs to pay for servers and especially storage, which can quickly be a lot when many people are active and sharing pictures and videos. Business models for this are already known, but might not work. Donations might be the most useful mechanism, patronage and probably tango professionals and organizers will need to carry a higher weight.
• There won’t be an algorithm that decides what you get to see, and what not. There is no attention optimization happening, and it will be less addictive. This also means that maybe you will spend less time on it, but still be connected enough with the tango communities and your tango friends.
• There might not be a mobile app with notifications and “attention optimizing mechanisms”
• There will be a need for volunteer moderators.
• Hashtags will become key. In Fediverse, people follow people or join groups, but they also follow hashtags. Especially hashtags are amazing for discovery of content, and to group content together.
• There will probably be not much non-tango content, or limited. If you use Facebook for non-tango you might still need your Facebook account.
• Ads: if ads, then tango ads? We can tolerate them, and might even enjoy them.
• It will operate at a different speed. With that i mean that content won’t disappear from a feed because the algorithm decided that it is no longer engaging. Feeds will be chronological, and can be filtered by who wrote them, your relationship with them, or by certain keywords. We might have good conversations over many weeks on the same thread.