Idea : An instance where everyone gets allotment of x (x=3?) toots per day for each month. At month's end of each the epoch ends and counts reset. You'd feel like you have lots of toots early on then later in the month you'd start rationing very carefully. Could also do this with favourites and boosts. Inspired by @bea
@cwm I'd be curious to see if it got quiet near month's end. After a few months people would be more cautious earlier, making sure each toot counts, but the unknown need to talk later would be this interesting tension.
@compthink after thinking about it more I totally agree
@cwm so, now we just need to convince someone to make it happen. I got no time.
@compthink I have an instance but not enough time or knowledge on how to make it happen.
@cwm ach! sci.fyi if I didn't have too many accounts already I'd so want to be in their.
@compthink @bea An alternative, taking a cue from ask.metafilter.com: one undirected toot per week. Not sure how well it'd do, but something to think on...
@compthink @bea Also might keep some yo-yos from tooting pr0n all the time.
@compthink @bea So you get all the toots (x * num. of days) up front or do you accrue more each day?
@bea @cs my thinking was you get them all up front to keep it simple and ti maximize the challenge of rationing your speech. But I think a monthly reset us the right cycle rather than weekly or yearly. And if x=5 or 10 it would be more magnified, no worries at beginning of month, stress at the end. You could even alter X by month according to some formula or metric of the discussion.
@compthink @bea I wonder if an alternate language would develop where if you favorite someone's ping twice they know that's the que for that person to look at your bio where you wrote them a message.
@compthink I love this. You could randomize the start of each month (based on join date?) for each person so the instance doesn't grind to a halt during the last week (or maybe that would be cool to see?).