# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 1
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/a325qpa
How To Fix Social Media 🢠Readup link, including a direct link to The New Atlantis piece\n\nOne of my comments: \n\nI will leave it to others more well read to comment on the originality of this piece. I do, however, agree with your overall assessment of it, up to, but not including, your opinion on his proposed solutions.\n\n> Social media companies, and those who produce content on their platforms, should operate not under a liability shield that isolates them from the public interest but under a set of rules that makes them responsive to the public interest.\n\nI do think there is merit in thinking about these companies differently, and the idea of scale being the trigger -- tipping them over from 'private' to 'broadcaster' -- while hardly trivial, is not nonsensical, in my mind. A decent place to begin a discussion, surely.\n\nI think the parallels with history are, frankly, uncanny, and, well, humbling. The needs of public haven't changed -- I myself have really struggled to find the information I've needed, particularly early on in the pandemic -- nor have many of the challenges in this space, once one compensates a bit for the sheer scale of everything today.