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Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by blacklight »

Quindecillion wrote: post #89

There's the nostr protocol that could be a good censorship resistant decentralised alternative [1] Jack Dorsey (ex-Twitter CEO) is also working on a protocol with similar properties [2] Neither can really replace Twitter right now, but they're interesting alternatives coming down the pipeline. [1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr [2] https://blueskyweb.org/

ActivityPub has been around for much longer. I consider Nostr and Bluesky rip offs of what ActivityPub has been trying to build for more than a decade.

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by verisimi »

afinlayson wrote: post #62

It'd be nice if there was a platform that was specifically designed for People, not bots / propagandist. Corporations should need to pay to be identified as such, and we should know when a person vs a corporation says something. Does this exist... not that I've seen. Vanity metrics like number of users have become real metrics for valuation... until that's broken we can't have these discussions. But my biggest proble…

> It'd be nice if there was a platform that was specifically designed for People, not bots / propagandist.

I don't know how you can say this, when they were/are one of the main drivers? Did anyone ban Hillary Clinton from speaking? No. But, nevermind characters such as Alex Jones etc, they banned the sitting president from speaking on their platform!

Whatever your political position, I find it amazing that banning opinions that you disagree with seems to be acceptable or even desired. It used to be that people would say: I don't agree with you, but I'll fight for your right to say what you want.

Instead, it seems everyone wants to live in a comfortable echo chamber, parroting the apparent consensus opinions. So it comes as a shock to them when someone says something different.

People should try to become a bit more resilient of diverse opinions, rather than insisting on an imagined right to fragile homogeneity.

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by blacklight »

mradek wrote: post #11

I think the "blue check" verification on Twitter is its most powerful asset. The most important people in the world (culture icons, heads of state & companies, and subject matter experts) congregate there to share their thoughts. Personally I think Twitter would work best if it was left to be just that. I don't think anyone really cares about what I have to say, for example. I'm just some random guy who works at a so…

We have solved this problem in a much better way on Mastodon.

Do you want your account to be verified? Do you have a personal or business website or blog that is associated to you? Then just add an to the page, add the link to your profile, and the connection is done - you have proved that you are the owner of that website.

Do we really need anything more than this?

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by infofarmer »

samwillis wrote: post #99

Picks any two of these three, I don't believe it's possible to do all three: 1. Decentralised 2. No Spam/manipulation 3. No censorship (The boundary between what is classed as manipulation, and what shouldn't be censored will never be solved)

email does all three reasonably well

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by imgabe »

shp0ngle wrote: post #113

Lots of people are on Telegram nowadays but then I follow a lot of Russian and Ukrainian sources so that’s why. It’s very popular there. I still don’t know how they make money though. It’s shady.

I keep hearing about people getting information from Telegram, but when I open it, it's just a list of chats with my contacts. I don't see any way to follow or otherwise see posts from people I don't already know that are just broadcast out to the general public. Am I missing something?

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by ArcMex »

mradek wrote: post #11

I think the "blue check" verification on Twitter is its most powerful asset. The most important people in the world (culture icons, heads of state & companies, and subject matter experts) congregate there to share their thoughts. Personally I think Twitter would work best if it was left to be just that. I don't think anyone really cares about what I have to say, for example. I'm just some random guy who works at a so…

>I don't think anyone really cares about what I have to say

Reaching 3 - 5 friends who care is enough for me.

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by klabb3 »

blacklight wrote: post #111
Quindecillion wrote: post #89

There's the nostr protocol that could be a good censorship resistant decentralised alternative [1] Jack Dorsey (ex-Twitter CEO) is also working on a protocol with similar properties [2] Neither can really replace Twitter right now, but they're interesting alternatives coming down the pipeline. [1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr [2] https://blueskyweb.org/

ActivityPub has been around for much longer. I consider Nostr and Bluesky rip offs of what ActivityPub has been trying to build for more than a decade.

From AT protocol (bluesky) FAQ:

> Why not use ActivityPub?

> [...] Account portability is the major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol. We consider portability to be crucial because it protects users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements.

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by holler »

Author here of Sqwok, it's a hybrid microblog/public chat app meant for having live public conversation around a topic.

Each post has a chatroom instead of comments, with expected chat features and more.

Not trying to build a Twitter or X replacement, just a quality place for live discussion.

https://sqwok.im

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