Interesting... there have been many attempts at the Twitter thing recently, and none have even come close. I tried to support zappl but ugh its just no good, I should have trusted my gut when I thought they weren't a great project unfortunately.

I heard a lot about Mastadon, but I dunno. I think Twitter works best as an unmonetized centralized service, and I think the Twitter cooperation has been remarkably good at facilitating free-ish speech within their ecosystem.