I think that Twitter's problem is more bots, shills, and manipulation than centralization. I would like to see another centralized platform which takes bots more seriously with maybe some other features like up/down vote, rather than just "likes."
Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
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Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
#92I hope none
I'd rather have people divide into smaller sites, forums, news aggregators
Just to see how it'd work
Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
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> if your handle has blue check and you are not banned from Twitter, it basically means you are promoting Twitter allowed leftist/progressive agenda and everything you write should be taken with big grain of salt https://mobile.twitter.com/GOPLeader https://mobile.twitter.com/LeaderMcConnell Have we just left reality behind entirely, or what?
false sense of opposition views and diverse opinions thanks to self censorship to avoid bans, they are allowed only because they tread lightly with their words. they claim to be different but in the end they are pretty much same, the left is now extreme left and right is now center/left
Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
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Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
#95Personally, I don’t think we need a twitter replacement. Mastodon is nice, but ultimately suffers from the same problems but at smaller scale. I think it’s more likely that users will move to smaller communities - Discord, Telegram & WhatsApp groups etc. I’m surprised that Whatsapp hasn’t developed better community functions.
There is so much potential in WhatsApp.
With a few baby steps they could move into the Discord/Slack space, Telegram channels, Twitter type interactions etc. And that’s before you get into a WeChat everything-app.
I’m not saying to add it all and change what makes WhatsApp good, but it could encompass a lot more social stuff (with small groups being the niche) and it’s absolutely ubiquitous.
It could also be a cash cow for Meta.
Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
You care about what you have to say, and this phenomena at scale is why Twitter succeeds. The "important people" came after Twitter succeeded. And I'd argue that "their thoughts" amount to little more than a mixture self promotion, virtue signaling, and an occasional hot take. Twitter is likely more valuable to them than they are to Twitter, which is probably the driving factor behind the recent change. Validation ch…
> 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…
>These may be genuinely important issues that they are using their audience and reach to magnify and promote.
This is still Twitter you're talking about. Blue checkmarks are overwhelmingly associated with 'woke' narcissists stoking the flames of the culture war
Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
#97In the case it dies I don't think the users will go to a particular social media. Some will go use different social networks, some will use nothing instead and will find other ways to consume their time.
Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
#98Mastodon. https://joinmastodon.org/ But people go where people are, so we’ll see if it gets traction.
I find it difficult to get my head around mastodon and federated messaging in general.
It seems like a lot of effort to go to when all I want is a social messaging app. I want to make an account once and be able to message anyone else on whatever app I'm using, not have to worry about whether my chosen node happens to be connected to theirs, not to mention that something like this [0] can happen and then apparently you need to personally handle migrating your data to another instance. These are technical details, not things that users should need to think about.
I don't see any federated messaging platform becoming popular until it reaches the point where users don't even have to understand what "federated messaging" means.
[0] https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/
Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
#99Picks any two of these three, I don't believe it's possible to do all three:
1. Decentralised
2. No Spam/manipulation
3. No censorship
(The boundary between what is classed as manipulation, and what shouldn't be censored will never be solved)
Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
#100Lens protocol: lenster.xyz