Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

Post by blitzar » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 12:35 PM UTC

smcl wrote: post #263

thrwyoilarticle wrote: post #214

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To answer your question, since the other replies are being disingenuous, it's a dog whistle for groups including 'liberals', left wingers, and - historically - Jewish people. This is why the OP comment makes the unsubstantiated claim that it's a method of coordinating an in-group's thought - as though agreeing with a left-wing bias Twitter is because of brainwashing and propaganda. It's unsubstantiated because it's e…

> it's a dog whistle for groups including 'liberals', left wingers, and - historically - Jewish people Well not necessarily. In some contexts that may be how it is used - I've heard GOP hardliners in the US using it this way. But for example the "elite" in the UK would largely refer to the right-leaning upper-class who attended "public schools" (note: discussed on HN previously, public school == very fancy, expensive…

Post by pjc50 » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 12:45 PM UTC

mcv wrote: post #256

INTPenis wrote: post #212

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>So interoperability with everything, but somehow also ensure security, block spam and abusive people, etc. Probably not an easy thing to solve. This is the giant elephant in the room. If we compare AP to e-mail, then all of us who have worked in e-mail ops know the trouble brewing. And it has already started. So yes having a federated social media brings new problems but it also brings new freedoms.

I think having sender authentication would help a lot. Email infamously doesn't have that, which makes it easy to spam. If every spammer had to identify themselves, they'd probably be a lot easier to block.

Post by blitzar » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 12:56 PM UTC

criddell wrote: post #255

blacklight wrote: post #150

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There are 6M estimated accounts, and 1.5M active users: https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/

So it’s basically as popular as MySpace is these days.

Post by MrMan » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 1:03 PM UTC

verisimi wrote: post #286

blitzar wrote: post #163

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An act of speech is an action. Preventing someone from expressing themselves is an action.

To clarify, I mean an action against another person. This is as per the golden rule, do no harm. If you speak, you are doing no harm. If you prevent someone speaking, you are.

Post by riffic » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 1:06 PM UTC

panosfilianos wrote: post #193

INTPenis wrote: post #164

I have a problem with this fundamental thinking of what "site" should replace it. This is exactly why I'm an ActivityPub geek, because it's not one site, it's sites. It's many softwares and many sites. Now I'm not claiming it will replace twitter, or that it's easy to use for most people. I can say for a fact that it is not, I see twitter users come over confused all the time. But regardless I think the concept of fe…

Hey, do you have any good intro to ActivityPub? Any aggregator or feed like RSS has? Looks very interesting.