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'Anti-Facebook' MeWe social network adds 2.5M new members in one week

36 points by alexrustic 6y ago

GekkePrutser 6y ago
Hm these networks seem to go nowhere though. 2.5M is nothing compared to facebook. I backed Okuna (formerly OpenBook) but 2 years later it's still work in progress. There's hardly anything interesting on there. The only thing I really see being alive is the Fediverse. Really happy to see that because it's truly open and free. But in the meantime I kinda discovered I'm totally fine without social media. I don't miss Facebook, Twitter, Instagram at all. I just use them for the bare basics now (things that require them). I still like Hacker News and one other forum but that's about it. Oh and LinkedIn but I don't consider it social media. It's more like personal PR, not real sharing. So long and thanks for all the fish!
- azornathogron 6y ago
  > Hm these networks seem to go nowhere though. 2.5M is nothing compared to facebook. I'm not sure it matters that it's orders of magnitude smaller than Facebook, unless your goal is to replace Facebook with another equivalent behemoth. I think the more interesting question is how big does it need to be to have a self-sustaining community or otherwise to reach "stability". Nothing is forever, but I would guess there are some thresholds where the chance of outright failure drop significantly. I don't know where those thresholds are though.
  - GekkePrutser 6y ago
    Well the good thing about FaceBook was that everyone was on FaceBook. I'm absolutely not interested in having as many social media apps as I currently have IM apps because everyone likes a different one. This is why I like the Fediverse so much, because they work together.
dokem 6y ago
Why would this network end up any different than facebook once you throw 2 billion users at it? It wouldn't.
- jb1991 6y ago
  Why not?
foofoo4u 6y ago
I listened to this interview with MeWe CEO Mark Weinstein the other day: https://www.protocol.com/mewe-interview https://www.protocol.com/mewe-interview. He shares his thoughts on why he dislikes Facebook so much and how MeWe stands to be different. I was surprised to learn that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is an advisor of the company. I like the positions MeWe is taking. I feel they are approaching social media in the right direction. One of the most important aspects of this is their business model. MeWe is ad-free. They make their money on in-app purchases and a premium subscription service. I also like the fact that feeds are in chronological order and only show content that you actually choose to follow.

36 points by alexrustic 6y ago

Hm these networks seem to go nowhere though. 2.5M is nothing compared to facebook. I backed Okuna (formerly OpenBook) but 2 years later it's still work in progress. There's hardly anything interesting on there. The only thing I really see being alive is the Fediverse. Really happy to see that because it's truly open and free. But in the meantime I kinda discovered I'm totally fine without social media. I don't miss Facebook, Twitter, Instagram at all. I just use them for the bare basics now (things that require them). I still like Hacker News and one other forum but that's about it. Oh and LinkedIn but I don't consider it social media. It's more like personal PR, not real sharing. So long and thanks for all the fish!

azornathogron 6y ago
> Hm these networks seem to go nowhere though. 2.5M is nothing compared to facebook. I'm not sure it matters that it's orders of magnitude smaller than Facebook, unless your goal is to replace Facebook with another equivalent behemoth. I think the more interesting question is how big does it need to be to have a self-sustaining community or otherwise to reach "stability". Nothing is forever, but I would guess there are some thresholds where the chance of outright failure drop significantly. I don't know where those thresholds are though.
- GekkePrutser 6y ago
  Well the good thing about FaceBook was that everyone was on FaceBook. I'm absolutely not interested in having as many social media apps as I currently have IM apps because everyone likes a different one. This is why I like the Fediverse so much, because they work together.

dokem 6y ago

Why would this network end up any different than facebook once you throw 2 billion users at it? It wouldn't.

jb1991 6y ago
Why not?

foofoo4u 6y ago

I listened to this interview with MeWe CEO Mark Weinstein the other day: https://www.protocol.com/mewe-interview https://www.protocol.com/mewe-interview. He shares his thoughts on why he dislikes Facebook so much and how MeWe stands to be different. I was surprised to learn that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is an advisor of the company. I like the positions MeWe is taking. I feel they are approaching social media in the right direction. One of the most important aspects of this is their business model. MeWe is ad-free. They make their money on in-app purchases and a premium subscription service. I also like the fact that feeds are in chronological order and only show content that you actually choose to follow.