i believe some sort of ‘all feed’ or an otherwise named feed of all posts would be nice in the discovery of new people and having your word (for newer people) actually viewable without the process of follows and follow backs.
i highly doubt that i am the first to suggest this, and there’s probably a reason that it doesnt exist yet?
as a professional (as they call, superdeveloper) i absolutely understand what the “signal” and “noise” are in this context and completely get why the ratio is important and of course why it would be unfortunate
idea: a feature that lets you see what account # you are (e.g. you’d probably be #1, @wasteof.money would be #2, and so on…)
Would be too DB intensive. I already suggested this. Also, @wasteof.money wasn't the 2nd account, I think
what bad stuff specifically would happen if i changed my username, other than @ links breaking (i can handle that)
everythign is id based internally so not much.
just old links to /users/theawesome98 will 404 (and old mentions in posts and comments wont update). you can fix it by registering the username youself and telling people to go to the renmed profile.
if anything does break, thats a bug on my end so you should let me know.
and of course you can always change your name back.
you can also do https://beta.wasteof.money/$id and replace id with your user id. Since the id can’t change, this link won’t break. (it works for prod too)
I remember asking you a year ago or so, but will you ever add the ability to add . in our usernames? I think it’d be balanced if it was limited to only one and it cannot be at the beginning or end, I forked wasteof1 (I know it has different code and stuff but they’re decently similar) to test if it’d break anything but it seems to be working fine.
dots are valid in usernames, i just dont allow them for registrations because they can spell out domain names. which i’m not a fan of
im making a spongebob movie, and at the end, it will advertise wasteof.money because its about twitter drama in bikini bottom 
how “expensive” would it be to:
when someone creates a new post,
iterate through all their followers
check if they’re connected to socket.io
if they are, send a thing like {“newFollowerPost”: “<id of post>”}
add content-warnings, makes the post fold up and you have to unfold it
could be useful for discussing a topic that someone might not want to see
useful for large posts, for example oren’s fucking mile-long post about The Gays
if your goal is to make your userbase no longer trust you, congrats. that is the likeliest result of this.
How would you feel if a moderator on a website you use a lot decided to block you out because they didn't like you, not because you had broken the rules?
and the fact you've been ignoring that just goes to prove how little you care about the people in this community.
Who wants to be on a social media where the owner lets personal feelings get in the way of the actual truth?