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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'

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Post by freehunter »

tossAfterUsing wrote: post #28
freehunter wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And convincing people to use a service named “scuttle butt”.

annecdotally, my attention isn't usually held for long by people who are unwilling to engage with a service because of it's weird name... https://scuttlebutt.nz/

And that’s fine for you. But it’s not fine for the service.

Technically anyone can use the dating service Christian Mingle. But you might not find a lot of atheists or Jewish people on there, simply because of the name and the implication of the people who would use a service with that name.

Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'

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Post by marcoseliziario »

organsnyder wrote: post #6
jandrese wrote: post #2

Is 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.

Google+ only had that many users because many other Google properties (YouTube being the biggest) were lumped in together. I bet the majority of Google+ "users" weren't even aware that the platform existed.

Yeah. If you had a google account was more or less impossible not to be on Google+. The thing is that engagement was pathetically low. We used to joke that the best password manager would be to post all your secrets in a google+ posting, because nobody would ever see your post.

Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'

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Post by gaius_baltar »

organsnyder wrote: post #6
jandrese wrote: post #2

Is 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.

Google+ only had that many users because many other Google properties (YouTube being the biggest) were lumped in together. I bet the majority of Google+ "users" weren't even aware that the platform existed.

Maybe not mainly YT: Google forced people to create one account there even for rating Android apps, so I suppose a lot of random Android users were counted too.

Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'

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Post by drugsupplychain »

konstantinentia wrote: post #24
jermaustin1 wrote: post #14

I 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…

I similarly relocated away from family. Turns out that if they know you don't use Facebook they will go out of their way to update you directly. Just believe that you are worth it, and my friend, you are.

Agreed! ^ My entire family lives pretty far away, but I facetime with them a lot more often since I got off FB.

Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'

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Post by bilbo0s »

znpy wrote: post #46
tekkk wrote: post #36

Well can't say I'm not curious, but €90 a year is a lot of money. To pay that for just another service for procrastination? Maybe I'll pass. Although I definitely support the idea.

it's the old saying: "if you're not paying for using a product or you're not being paid to use a product, that means that you're the product". Deciding to pass on a service that asks you money to offer you a service is completely fine, as long as you don't later complain about "privacy issues" and "massive surveillance".

Well, in fairness, you're not gonna be free from mass surveillance by signing up for WT social. You might not need to worry about people selling your data, provided none of your connections adds a privacy destroying app in the future?

But yeah, everyone will still be subject to the government showing up and going through your data if they deem it necessary. I'm not sure that can be helped? If there's an ironclad way to do that, I haven't seen it done.

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Post by varjag »

organsnyder wrote: post #6
jandrese wrote: post #2

Is 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.

Google+ only had that many users because many other Google properties (YouTube being the biggest) were lumped in together. I bet the majority of Google+ "users" weren't even aware that the platform existed.

Right, it would grab you by YT and wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. Effectively it was also world's largest deanonymization effort. Must have been some hefty internal incentives program at Google, they tried as if their bonus depended on it.

Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'

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Post by type0 »

freehunter wrote: post #51
tossAfterUsing wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

annecdotally, my attention isn't usually held for long by people who are unwilling to engage with a service because of it's weird name... https://scuttlebutt.nz/

And that’s fine for you. But it’s not fine for the service. Technically anyone can use the dating service Christian Mingle. But you might not find a lot of atheists or Jewish people on there, simply because of the name and the implication of the people who would use a service with that name.

What do you mean "Scuttle Butt" is a perfect name for a dating service, "Christian Minglë" is also awesome name, I hope someone start a service like that /s

Re: Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'

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Post by type0 »

sylens wrote: post #8
jandrese wrote: post #2

Is 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.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

No, no, it's already over 9000!
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