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Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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

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Post by mcv »

Isn't Mastodon pretty much a drop-in replacement for Twitter? And it has the advantage of being distributed and it supports Fediverse cross-platform sharing (with Friendica, GnuSocial, etc).

I'm on Friendica so I can follow people on both Mastodon and Diaspora (which would be the drop-in replacement for Facebook).

Still, I think we need something better. I'd like to see a social network with all of that, and support for email, but with sender-authentication (to stop spam), builtin encryption, but also Whatsapp/Signal style chat. And easily shift to whatever mode you're most comfortable with. And maybe also integrate blogging a bit more. I don't like having to choose between commenting on the blog itself or on the social share of the blog post; those two should be integrated.

I see the current flock of distributed social networks as basically the testing bed that should lead to something like that. We're not there yet.

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

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Post by ryzvonusef »

combyn8tor wrote: post #156
ryzvonusef wrote: post #149

how about we don't fall into mass hysteria and wait? People don't move from platforms, they drift away naturally. I didn't move away from slashdot, I just found reddit suited my needs and naturally visited the site less and less. and then, I didn't move from reddit to HN, I just used reddit less and less until I realized HN fit my niche more. I still have my slashdot account, but it's been unused since 2014 with redd…

> People don't move from platforms, they drift away naturally. Digg has entered the chat.

somehow I skipped Digg altogether. Like I knew the site existed, but simply didn't enter my sphere of browsing.

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

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Post by hkt »

blitzar wrote: post #161
Jenk wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a completely pointless and banal digression into divisive politics when nobody asked for it.

But what the fuck is an "Elite" anyway?

I think rather than dragging a HN thread off topic it may be beneficial for you to read about the topics - both the HN post and the idea of elites as it pertains to your question. Sorry to be a killjoy.

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

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Post by vntok »

adolph wrote: post #160
rhn_mk1 wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://the-federation.info/mastodon > Last 6 months users: 2254133 > hundreds of thousands of millions. hmm. 100 (hundreds) 000 (thousands) 000 000 (millions) 100 000 000 000. Earth human population: ~7 billion. 7 000 000 000. I didn't realize Twitter was expanding into the nonhuman market. Or are there more humans outside of Earth that no one told me about? Far cry indeed.

In addition to humans there are brands yearning for recognition

Also pets, objects, ideas and parodies.

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

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Post by o_m »

ryzvonusef wrote: post #172
combyn8tor wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> People don't move from platforms, they drift away naturally. Digg has entered the chat.

somehow I skipped Digg altogether. Like I knew the site existed, but simply didn't enter my sphere of browsing.

The point combyn8tor is trying to make is that there was an exodus from Digg to Reddit and it happened rapidly. Digg didn't fade away as others did.

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

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Post by hkt »

Gordonjcp wrote: post #167
blacklight wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. I run my own instance, and it's not that hard to set up and get connected to other instances. Those that don't want to run their own instance usually either join an existing instance (there are about 10k servers out there), or just join mastodon.social (and that's where most people are anyways). 2. When I joined I didn't know anybody either, but in a short time I connected to a lot of new interesting people. Now I…

1) I don't have time to run that on top of everything else, and mastodon.social is not accepting new signups. I don't want to just jump on a server run by some random. 2) I don't want to connect to a lot of new interesting people, I want to connect to the interesting people I'm already connected with. 3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single ti…

3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single time I go on.

...is that not most experiences of twitter?

As for where to have an account, sdf.org has been around since the 80s and hosts a variety of useful things including a fediverse client (if memory serves, mastodon).

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

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

For me, this is really the only social media place I’m active (that’s why I have so many posts, hereabouts).

I have a whole bunch of accounts in other venues, but most lie fallow. They are basically “placeholders.” I have to use a couple, from time to time.

All that, to say, I don’t especially care what happens to Twitter.

From where I sit, it appears as if a troll has bought it, and has declared that he plans to make it a troll playground.

Sounds like fun, but I feel it was basically there, already.

I have a lot of respect for Musk's tenacity and engineering prowess, but this is a different substrate.

People aren't as easy to manage as engineering challenges.

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