Perhaps an alternative is rather than getting banned from the platform, you can just get banned from discoverability if your posts are a detriment to the community. But your direct followers can always keep seeing your content.

I imagine they'd also have to find a solution for replies and retweets. Those also can also show up on your feed, even if the original post is not from someone you follow.

I don't see how retweets are a problem. If someone doesn't want to see retweets of a certain person, they can unfollow everyone who retweets them. Twitter even allows you to show only original tweets, and not retweets, from someone you follow.

I like that idea, but note that youtube already has that - the default "home" tab is the recommendation engine, you can go to the "subscriptions" tab to show only your subscriptions - and people still keep whining about it.

I didn't know that... Thank you.

Ps: I don't use Twitter, frequently only when a very interesting hn discussion points there

YouTube spams the "watch next" spam list on every video you watch.

I use twitter because you can switch to a chronological feed by using the "sparkle/stars" button in the upper right corner. This removes all of the suggestions and tweets from people you don't know. Basically it turns discoverablity off. You still get retweets if shared by someone you follow (you can also turn that off by going to their profile).

This is the main reason it's the only social media company I use. I can avoid the algorithm completely.

I also use Twitter lists and made a list of close friends so I can see a feed of just their tweets in case I miss them in the chronological feed.

The tools are already there. The UX to surface them needs to be better though.

Somehow I missed this (very noticeable actually) non-algorithmic toggle button until I saw your comment, so many thanks for mentioning this.