App.net is shutting down
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App.net is shutting down
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Re: App.net is shutting down
#2Unfortunate. Goes to show that you really can't break even without ads or selling/analysing data with a centralised social network.
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#3Kinda ominous that the main Twitter alternative right now is GAB.
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#4Unfortunate. Goes to show that you really can't break even without ads or selling/analysing data with a centralised social network.
or put another way, "people don't want to pay for most things"
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#5Re: App.net is shutting down
#6Kinda ominous that the main Twitter alternative right now is GAB.
It's only a Twitter alternative if people I care about will read what I write, or I can read what people I care about write.
Until most of the publishers are dual-publishing (or migrated), or most of the readers are dual-reading (or migrating), it's not an alternative.
GAB is a niche Twitter alternative.
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#7This is a refreshingly honest shutdown notice.
Congratulations to Dalton and co for trying something hard and worthwhile, and wrapping it up responsibly when it didn't pan out.
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#8Kinda ominous that the main Twitter alternative right now is GAB.
What's that?
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#9Re: App.net is shutting down
#10This is an unfortunate, but not unexpected, end of an era. App.net was created at a time when discontent was high with how Twitter was treating its users and 3rd party app developers. Even though App.net wasn't hugely successful, its existence provided a needed check against Twitter exercising user-hostile control over their platform.
However, it has not been a viable platform (one that people actually used) for many years, so while I am saddened that it is finally being shut down, I'm not surprised. Many thanks to Dalton and everyone who built it and kept it going these many years!