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

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Post by jean_tta »

hinata08 wrote: post #231
blitzar wrote: post #144

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wtf is an "elite" anyway? The richest people in the world ... but not the ones that agree with me? The politicians ... but not the ones on my side? The athletes ... except for my team?

Different countries have different networks of power. I suggest you google 'networks of power', which is the academic term as far as I know. English countries like UK and USA are shaped around 'clubs'. You can only join one if you're appointed Japan has a set of corporation leaders who exchange informations, who came from families. And some countries like France are being weird. There, your social status isn't decide…

> andard to be a high ranking politicians like presidents, ministers, or CEOs. In the 20 years before 2017, they used not only have studied at the same school, the ENA, but where mostly from the same prom : 1978-1980, the (in)famous Promotion Voltaire.

For context, the ÉNA was a civil service school, i.e. it was for French civil service what West point is for the US Army.

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

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Post by panosfilianos »

INTPenis wrote: post #215
panosfilianos wrote: post #193

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

No I'm afraid I've looked very little at the actual protocol, mostly been busy running a node. I have seen a few people write their own AP implementations, in their personal blogs for example. It doesn't seem hard. My suggestion to learn AP would be to integrate your own blog into AP first. That way you learn by doing.

Will look into it. Thanks!

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

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Post by jemmyw »

mradek wrote: post #11

I think the "blue check" verification on Twitter is its most powerful asset. The most important people in the world (culture icons, heads of state & companies, and subject matter experts) congregate there to share their thoughts. Personally I think Twitter would work best if it was left to be just that. I don't think anyone really cares about what I have to say, for example. I'm just some random guy who works at a so…

Well, I personally would rather read your thoughts than those of the "important" people you mentioned. You aren't trying to sell me something or gain attention, you probably have no agenda other than sharing what you think. If I reply you might actually read my reply, consider my words and write back.

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

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Post by elondaits »

mcv wrote: post #235
deanCommie wrote: post #69

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> virtue signaling I despise this term. You don't know people's motivations. These may be genuinely important issues that they are using their audience and reach to magnify and promote. And if you've had the luck/misfortune of becoming famous, should you not use the attention and reach you wield to focus on issues that you think are important in society? > Validation checkmarks will now cost $20/month. A) They're not…

> > virtue signaling > I despise this term. You don't know people's motivations. These may be genuinely important issues that they are using their audience and reach to magnify and promote. Accusations of virtue signalling get misused a lot, especially by people opposed to those important issues. But it's absolutely a real thing. I think the most notable form of virtue signalling is public prayer on TV by politicians…

It’s impossible to know people’s intentions, because we even can’t really explain 100% the things we do ourselves. So, it’s a bad starter for an argument… It’s better to judge people for their actions, rather, because even if someone does something involuntarily they should be responsible for it.

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

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Post by manfre »

oneoff786 wrote: post #261
mariusor wrote: post #227

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I'm surprised that people don't remember how silly twitter, twitting, twit were considered by serious people when the service launched back at the end of the naughties.

Sure. But on some level a bird tweeting makes sense.

If the quality of content for mastadon is on par with Twitter than farting (tooting) out content makes sense too.

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

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Post by infofarmer »

weberer wrote: post #189
infofarmer wrote: post #115

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email does all three reasonably well

Email does not do #2 well at all.

if you don't look at SMTP alone, but at the whole suite of protocols and best practices, email spam has been a solved problem for over a decade

compared to my gmail, protonmail and other email clients/services, the signal-to-spam ratio on Twitter is less than 10% even for me — a nobody with <1k followers

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

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Post by mcv »

elondaits wrote: post #274
mcv wrote: post #235

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> > virtue signaling > I despise this term. You don't know people's motivations. These may be genuinely important issues that they are using their audience and reach to magnify and promote. Accusations of virtue signalling get misused a lot, especially by people opposed to those important issues. But it's absolutely a real thing. I think the most notable form of virtue signalling is public prayer on TV by politicians…

It’s impossible to know people’s intentions, because we even can’t really explain 100% the things we do ourselves. So, it’s a bad starter for an argument… It’s better to judge people for their actions, rather, because even if someone does something involuntarily they should be responsible for it.

Of course it's better to judge people for their actions, but that doesn't mean you can't know people's intentions. Sometimes they're really incredibly clear about their intentions. Intentions and actions aren't separate things.

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

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Post by ianopolous »

We're working on a p2p protocol which aims to be a long term solution to this and, more generally, a social web, which has:

1. 100% portable accounts (you can unilaterally move host, and you keep your social graph, and all links to your content continue to work)

2. You only see things from people you follow (the poster can also choose their audience)

3. Everything is end-to-end-encrypted (no server admin can read anything)

You can read more here: https://peergos.org/posts/decentralized-social-media

You can also write your own apps that leverage the private social storage: https://peergos.org/posts/a-better-web

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

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Post by UncleMeat »

golergka wrote: post #236
remarkEon wrote: post #138

The vast majority of commenters here fundamentally misunderstand what Twitter is, or rather what it has become. It's not a "social network" anymore. I mean, it is in the technical sense - you and I can both sign up for an account. But what it is today is an elite coordination mechanism, and Twitter became this because it was the first of it's kind and some sort of momentum or technological inertia put us where we're…

> coordination mechanism And isn't that basically what social network is? I mean, including real-life social network of just people knowing one another and talking.

It is closer to linkedin than facebook, in my observation. It is professional collaboration, not seeing pictures of people's new babies.

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

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Post by mcv »

Aldipower wrote: post #270
mcv wrote: post #171

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…

To be successful in Germany, Mastodon needs to change his name first. It just sounds disgusting to my ears. Similar like the German word "Mastdarm". SCNR

I think it was originally created by a German and is reasonably big in Germany.
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