Zuckerberg should be the obvious canidate for building a alternative. You could probably just use facebooks timeline logic. But he is too busy building the metaverse
Ask HN: Why isn't anyone creating or promoting an alternative to Twitter?
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#12Honestly, because I don't see what problem Twitter is solving in the first place. Twitter popped into our reality as the winner in a time when social media was launching and everyone wanted to be a voice on the internet. And for that it works and thrives on its own momentum. But I'm not sure being a voice on the internet is actually a problem the needs a solution now that social media has matured and many people are backing away from it.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't anyone creating or promoting an alternative to Twitter?
#13There are a lot of alternatives popping up: BlueSky, Mastodon, Farcaster, nostr. There are also some older protocols that people are still building on like secure scuttlebutt.
I've written about some of the differences of these protocols here:
https://mirror.xyz/mattdesl.eth/_F9vQAUeeBB9AJNwMNaE_G5kTcl1...
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't anyone creating or promoting an alternative to Twitter?
#14what about tumblr? that's where seemingly a lot of former twitter users are moving to
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't anyone creating or promoting an alternative to Twitter?
#15Honestly, because I don't see what problem Twitter is solving in the first place. Twitter popped into our reality as the winner in a time when social media was launching and everyone wanted to be a voice on the internet. And for that it works and thrives on its own momentum. But I'm not sure being a voice on the internet is actually a problem the needs a solution now that social media has matured and many people are…
Sure social media has matured but there are still millions of people who use twitter so the demand is clearly still out there.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't anyone creating or promoting an alternative to Twitter?
#16Please no. Kill Twitter. Kill Facebook as well while we are at it.
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#17Kara Swisher recently interviewed Noam Bardin, the creator of: https://post.news/ This seems like a public square with the exact opposite goals of Elon (heavy moderation)
> We believe in freedom of speech and will oppose any government's attempt to censor speech on our platform. However, we have rules, which we plan to rigorously enforce via content moderation, with the help of our community
Bruh…
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't anyone creating or promoting an alternative to Twitter?
#18Everyones too busy building a note taking app.
Or the new database or the programming language.
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#19I guess because we are not in the 2010s anymore. Something new will probably emerge, but it won't be like Twitter.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't anyone creating or promoting an alternative to Twitter?
#20I wonder how much people are secretly just hoping Twitter dies with no replacement. Skepticism about social media is basically the default position for educated professionals now, who are likely to already have distanced themselves from Facebook. The Twitter users I know would be happy to get rid of it, if not for the perceived career benefits (likewise with LinkedIn). When Twitter no longer offers any ladder-climbin…
What about ladder-climbing benefits for artists?