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For those still looking around for a new place, I definitely recommend post.news at this point. It is the only place I’ve seen that has a “feel” like twitter, although more like old school twitter when it was cooler.

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Post.news I think has a fatal flaw. It’s business model is based on folks paying for news. That’s just not happening.

Also some crypto investment which makes me skeptical.

Then again, I don’t think any social media site can truly be profitable at this point outside of making money through selling data or captive eyeballs done through an algorithm which harms society.

3842

Eh, I dunno about that. I see folks using it exactly like they used twitter, posting links to news.

It’s just got the ADDED ability for independent authors to monetize their stuff directly through the platform.

3843

So it’s mostly a news-poster? How’s the moderation standards in general?

This may seem ironic, but on my mega-lefty mastodon instance, there’s very little political discussion- everyone’s pretty confident there’s general agreement so most of the discussion is lifehacks/moral support/moments of joy in the wasteland types of things. It’s a pleasant vibe.

When I was using both, the lefty space was my refuge from doomposting.

3844

Post.news also has a queue of like 300k people atm. Or it did two days ago when I tried to sign up.

So while they might be good, they’re running into the problem most competitors have: ability to scale.

Edit: Email from yesterday from them:
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This doesn’t even include me, this is people who tried to sign up before Nov 20th.

3845

Post.news needs a bunch of VC cash to scale ASAP. I tend to agree with Timex that it has the best chance among the contenders of actually displacing Twitter.

3846

Mainly because it’s the only one that I don’t find annoying to use, and which actually has people I followed on Twitter.

3847

For those trying out Hive as an alternative to Twitter, you might want to hold off a while.

3848

Daniel Day Lewis voice: I edit your tweet!

3849

Yeah, no shit Hive is ass.

Do they even have a web version of their app?

3850

Elon is now saying he’s going to get a Neuralink brain implant, despite repeatedly asking his engineers in the past to implement features recklessly on unrealistic timelines without taking the necessary precautions.

(He might as well have conspicuously left a gun on a table in the first act - oh wait, he did just that in that one Tweet.)

This is a thing that is actually happening, according to Elon, and not a supervillain origin story in a comic book.

Dear Neuralink engineers: please implement a mute button. Thank you.

3851

Sure Elon, roll the dice…

3852

Much like self driving cars it works perfectly now, so it’s not really a risk.

3853

Please, please, please do it. Better still, put up a Twitter poll asking what features the implant should have. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.

3854

The dude is literally Diego from System Shock.

3855

They have already taken funding from the obnoxious crypto-bros of A16Z. And sure, there’s some minor chance that the founders aren’t actually asshats themselves, but the only way we have of judging them right now is by the company they choose to keep.

No, wait. This is founded by the Waze CEO? The piece of shit whose goodbye post from Google bragged about how many HR complaints he’d racked up, complained about how Silicon Valley was too politically correct these days, and then mostly whined about how young people are too entitled and lazy and unwilling to work weekends to win at any cost (i.e. enrich their multi-millionaire boss).

So I’ll take it back, we have two ways of judging this particular enterprise. It’s funded by Musk’s co-investors in Twitter and run by a Musk-wannabe. Why in the world are we rooting for them?

3856

Beacuse Mastodon is slightly inconvenient to set up

3857

Good news! You have no choice but to hold off!

Turning servers off for “a couple of days” can’t be good for a fledgling social network.

3858

“Only 21% of the monkeys died, so those are good odds.”
-“genius”

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