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Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
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Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
#12Is that headline damning with faint praise? Mere "thousands" doesn't seem like enough to get critical mass on a social network. For comparison Google+ had something on the order of 300 million users and failed to get traction.
Anecdotally, Google+ failed for me because I got stuck in an authentication loop for a business page. It wanted to verify the business, but the link to do so always errored out, which made it impossible to ever change the page content beyond what I initially put in. I stopped using both sides of it at that point, and it wouldn’t surprise me if others ran into similar rough edges. In true Google style, there was absol…
Ran into a similar issue.
Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
#13Is that headline damning with faint praise? Mere "thousands" doesn't seem like enough to get critical mass on a social network. For comparison Google+ had something on the order of 300 million users and failed to get traction.
That faint praise will transform into real praise once millions of BBC readers feel compelled to join those thousands already in Wikipedia's version of facebook.
Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
#14I can't see this as a Facebook rival. From my understanding, this is a social news site with fact checking.
I use Facebook to post pictures of my vacations for my family, and get updates on my nieces and nephews since I moved from Houston, TX to NYC 5 years ago.
Until someone replaces that aspect in a way that works while still enabling my family to do their memes and quizzes, and all that crap I avoid, there will be no "rival". I HATE Facebook, but I can't get rid of it without losing access to my family.
Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
#15Not to dive into semantics, I guess it's more of a Reddit rival? Meaning that I would be happy if it can be a fairly good news aggregator, and it doesn't need a huge critical mass. Facebook is for baby pictures of friends, angry old relatives and instant messenger for people that you want to keep at a certain distance :-)
Reddit certainly rivals Facebook for my attention.
Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
#16Just signed up, I hope this really takes off.
I think the design needs a proper face lift, then again the first version of FB wasnt a really eye candy either.
I hope in future they implement messaging system and events.
Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
#17I'm really happy to see a social network that makes costs clear and allow me to pay for its services in exchange for not having my data sold.
It probably won't grow to hundreds of millions of users but that's fine. Closer connections with people that care are much more interesting.
Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
#18"Thousands"
Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
#19Not to dive into semantics, I guess it's more of a Reddit rival? Meaning that I would be happy if it can be a fairly good news aggregator, and it doesn't need a huge critical mass. Facebook is for baby pictures of friends, angry old relatives and instant messenger for people that you want to keep at a certain distance :-)
Reddit certainly rivals Facebook for my attention.
Reddit with Wikipedia-style moderation does not appeal to me.
Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
#20> The platform says it will never sell user data and relies on "the generosity of individual donors" rather than ads.
Yay, so yearly half-site banners at the top of the page asking for an individual contribution while sitting on a multi-million dollar stack of money? Nice. Facebook is done! \s