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Post by nicenewtemp84 »

nr2x wrote: post #341
nicenewtemp84 wrote: post #280

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Imagine spending only 30% of your net worth and getting to experiment with buying and growing one of the most used and talked about sites on the internet. If I spent 30% of my net worth I could buy a condo in the bay, possibly. Although odds are it would be worth close to that if I needed to sell it. But many people spend 30% of their net worth trying to start businesses with almost no traction. Musk spent 30% to buy…

I mean I could buy a very expensive Mercedes and drive it straight into the Bay at high speed. That doesn’t make it a good idea.

Definitely doesn't make it a good idea. But it's still interesting that he's playing with one of the most talked about sites on the internet without really affecting his finances at all. Of all the random things to do with your money, it's not even that bad of an experiment.

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Post by Andrex »

internetter wrote: post #71
xd1936 wrote: post #59

This would be much more interesting to me if it was a member of the Fediverse and supported ActivityPub.

Agreed. I commented this on the announcement thread, but there's so much... Bluesky, T2, Hive, Post, now this. I'm not gonna jump to a new microblogging platform when 10% of my friends are on one, 10% on another. If you are making a twitter clone, AP is the only way to go

I don't understand why providing and consuming RSS/Atom is so problematic the technical headaches couldn't be overcome...

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by PaulHoule »

Pxtl wrote: post #346
PaulHoule wrote: post #307

Substack really competes with creators leaving and setting up their own newsletter + payment gateway software. That’s like a $20,000 or so project from a web dev firm and for a creator who gets $200,000 a year from their newsletter it pays for itself in a year. The trouble is that substack makes almost all of its money from two handfuls of users who make more than that so if substack loses those creators it is left w…

I mean look at Patreon that basically exist as 100% overhead over just a Paypal account. They're doing fine. They demonstrated that convenient cash transactions for digital subscriptions is a viable business model. I mean, youtube had half the internet complaining "I wish that link was text and not a video" and the other half complaining "I wish it was as easy to monetize writing as it was to monetize video" and Subs…

That's a good comparison.

I know a warvlogger, however, who is still active on YouTube but moved to Patreon because he felt constrained about what he could post on YouTube who left Patreon because Patreon kicked out all warvloggers, now he has his own members-only website.

Another example is OnlyFans which has the same inequality problem as Substack. In my mind it is a little more mysterous how you'd run your own video streaming platform than how you'd run an email newsletter system, but I know you can rent video streaming from AWS so it isn't so hard. I think it's interesting how live-interaction platforms like Clubhouse outside pornography collapsed really quickly though.

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Post by fintechie »

Jare wrote: post #90
hersko wrote: post #34

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How is twitter ruined? My personal experience on the site has not changed much.

- People I follow have left. Most have moved to Mastodon so I can still follow them there. It's a constant trickle but some day the weight will be higher on Mastodon's side of the balance. - Ads range from obnoxious to downright scams. I know some people used to block ad senders as a matter of routine, but I didn't, most of the time they were valid and I was happy to support the site via their ads. After Musk, most a…

To be fair, many people don't seem to have these issues you mention. For FinTwit and CT (crypto twitter) it's business as usual. Maybe it happens for other niches though.

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Post by crysin »

ModernMech wrote: post #295
waboremo wrote: post #220

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Musk is the least of my concerns, I can ignore his account if I cared that much. I can't really ignore that a lot of higher quality accounts have been interacting less because Twitter has become a technical mess, fucking up their timelines and notifications. This sort of loss is quiet, and slow. You only really notice it when it's too late, when your feed is nothing but mindless ads and random accounts you never foll…

> Musk is the least of my concerns, I can ignore his account if I cared that much. You really can't tho. Even if you block him, he'll still routinely show up in your timeline when people tweet a jpg of his tweets. Even if you somehow ignore all that, he'll still do random shit like change the Twitter logo to a dog to make sure you don't forget it's his playground, and you're just an NPC in his main character existenc…

That wasn't just any dog, that was doge the now mascot and namesake of the cryptocurrency dogecoin of which Musk has been known to pump with memes.

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Post by jabradoodle »

chipgap98 wrote: post #379
Cardinal7167 wrote: post #141

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The great shake up has started. Google pissing their pants with AIs abrupt arrival, Twitter dying a death by a million cuts, Facebook in mid-air making their VR play, the tech skyline will look very different in 5 years.

I don't think Facebook really belongs in this conversation. As much as the VR stuff is silly their core business is still doing very well

And so is googles, Facebook are spending more than $10B a year on VR. For context that is more than Nvidia's quite large R&D budget, which they have ramped up on consistently over years. Facebook has gone from 0 to 10B real fast.

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Post by greyman »

Cardinal7167 wrote: post #141
jpmattia wrote: post #115

It wasn't like Twitter's business had a large technical barrier-to-entry. And Musk seems to be pissing away his non-technical barrier-to-entry just about as hard as he can. Good luck to Substack on eating twitter's lunch! Edit: That said, I've found mastodon (@jpmattia@mastodon.mit.edu) to be a much more pleasant interaction compared to twitter, so I'm curious what the landscape looks like in a couple of years.

The great shake up has started. Google pissing their pants with AIs abrupt arrival, Twitter dying a death by a million cuts, Facebook in mid-air making their VR play, the tech skyline will look very different in 5 years.

But is twitter really dying? The fields I watch (AI, software engineering, writers), all thought leaders are still there, still posting regularly.

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Post by wordpad25 »

chipgap98 wrote: post #379
Cardinal7167 wrote: post #141

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The great shake up has started. Google pissing their pants with AIs abrupt arrival, Twitter dying a death by a million cuts, Facebook in mid-air making their VR play, the tech skyline will look very different in 5 years.

I don't think Facebook really belongs in this conversation. As much as the VR stuff is silly their core business is still doing very well

people treat facebook as if it were like their myspace, something dumb they did in their youth that's not longer relevant and is dying

reality is pretty different, fb business is doing great despite all their missteps

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Post by ninth_ant »

chipgap98 wrote: post #379
Cardinal7167 wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The great shake up has started. Google pissing their pants with AIs abrupt arrival, Twitter dying a death by a million cuts, Facebook in mid-air making their VR play, the tech skyline will look very different in 5 years.

I don't think Facebook really belongs in this conversation. As much as the VR stuff is silly their core business is still doing very well

Google’s core businesses are doing just fine too.

Twitter has suffered financially but I’ve seen little evidence that they’ve lost substantial numbers of users — Twitter posts are still in news articles and sites like HN as if it’s still serving it’s original purpose despite the noise.

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