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No. Go throw up a twitter clone on an AWS instance or a digitalocean droplet, or host it on an old PC in your closet. Probably half of the people here on HN h
by thepasswordis 5y ago
No. Go throw up a twitter clone on an AWS instance or a digitalocean droplet, or host it on an old PC in your closet. Probably half of the people here on HN have coded some clone like that and it's just sitting unused.
It's not AWS preventing a twitter alternative from popping up.
Also: things like gab, gettr, .win etc. all exist. They're just cesspools.
- istinetz 5y ago>It's not AWS preventing a twitter alternative from popping up. Really? Cause I seem to recall that every company in their tech stack decided to drop Parler, including Amazon, and including removals from both app stores. I'd like to see "half the people of HN" create a twitter clone - but don't forget ALL the infrastructure, no service providers, no app stores, no hosting, etc.
- pixxel 5y agoYou recall correctly. It was an orchestrated deplatforming.
- thepasswordis 5y agoThe person who created gab is a HN alum (although he was "kicked out")