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I 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?
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How many companies has Musk bankrupted?
In this specific case he warned bankruptcy is a possibility. When the egomaniac admits he might fail, it's time to listen.
With what money? VC money? Which VC? What would the business model be exactly? Ad money is drying up as companies are slashing online ad budgets. Now I'm sure eventually if Twitter goes down, traditional media will settle on a specific app to promote heavily, but this time, it will be on their terms.
I actually had a really good idea for a social media site this month, just before Elon bought twitter. I've been working on the idea a bit, but without a strong network effect it might not go anywhere. People flocked to Twitter because of who was there.
I have one as well. What's your killer feature? Mine is that it is invite-only, and if you break the rules, the person that invited you and everybody else they have invited gets booted from the platform. Apart from that, the only other rule is don't be illegal, don't spam, and post whatever the hell you want. I don't mean it to replace Twitter. It's more like a social experiment. If there are permanent social consequ…
A less extreme/draconian version of this sounds cool
I 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…
I want to have place where I can follow some people's written content without being "friends" with them.
I 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?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have one as well. What's your killer feature? Mine is that it is invite-only, and if you break the rules, the person that invited you and everybody else they have invited gets booted from the platform. Apart from that, the only other rule is don't be illegal, don't spam, and post whatever the hell you want. I don't mean it to replace Twitter. It's more like a social experiment. If there are permanent social consequ…
> the person that invited you and everybody else they have invited gets booted from the platform. A less extreme/draconian version of this sounds cool
I want to test the hypothesis whether people can be nice and decent on the Internet without resorting to enforced real names and government approved access to the Web.
Mind you, you'd need to be a terrible person to be booted. Posting child porn. Inciting murder. Botting and spamming. Doxing and organising a mob. Why should terrible people to have a free pass? Why should one have a free pass for inviting a terrible person?
Again, I do not want to change the social media landscape. This would be performance art.
Well, there's Mastodon, of course. I'm kind of surprised that whoever owns Tumblr this week isn't pushing it harder; Tumblr is, when it comes to it, more or less twitter without the character limit and with a much worse mobile app (most Twitter features were effectively copied from Tumblr). That said, I'm not sure that there needs to be a single direct replacement for Twitter; historically, when a social network dies…
Note how few HN submissions point to masto posts, it's ~ 10,000:1 Tweets:Masto.