People on Twitter seem to think that if someone’s successful it’s an open invitation to say hurtful, judgemental and condescending things about them. One of the things I love about fc is it humanizes these people.

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To be fair the vast majority of people on Twitter (hundreds of millions) are spectators who get no attention. The judgment we see comes from the minority of tweets that get all the impressions. I don't even try because moderate takes quickly fall into oblivion.

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Of course that’s true. But I also see friends and colleagues, people I respect, saying things about other people that they’d never say to their face

I'd attribute that dynamic more to the fact that twitter (and fc) are reputation / status games. You follow people, not ideas. That means that if you want to moderate the influence of a person you have to collapse their reputation.

In person conversations have different physics (and more balanced power dynamics)

The only problem is externality pricing.

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I always thought that the power of likes and retweets has been underestimated in terms of how much they motivate people. If you took them away, it would become more like a regular chatroom. As it is, it drives us to seek approval and attention.