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Ask HN: Gettr – The Twitter Killer?

• taurusnoises 5y ago
  • newsbinator 5y ago
    Would it be more acceptable if there were non-white non-males?
    • taurusnoises 5y ago
      Not sure. I'm only concerned with the behavior of white males. As one, it's the world I know, and I know it very well. You can smell Gettr's agenda a mile away. Ain't foolin no one. Well, some people, I guess.
      • clownworldclown 5y ago
        Is this satire?
        • taurusnoises 5y ago
          Nope. I decided long ago who I'd keep my eye on. My "kind." Their behavior is my concern.
      • lettergram 5y ago
        Was Twitter not the same, at least initially?
  • Blackstrat 5y ago
    And that comment sounds like the typical vacuous comments that led me to turn off all television news.
  • slater 5y ago
    To me, it sounds like the folks that always joked about people "needing safe spaces" were just projecting all along.
    • showerrain 5y ago
  • gaws 5y ago
    > Reads like code for a space catering to white males who think providing "safe spaces" for the alt-right has something to do with freedom of speech. All they want is a place where they can call people the N-word without any recourse. That's all it comes down to.
    • Irongirl1 5y ago
      As an "N-word", I really appreciate it when people let their true colors show. It helps me to avoid them. I wish we had a ribbon for them...like we do for other specialized pursuits. That way I can avoid interacting with people who mean me harm. Otherwise I might blunder into them unknowingly. Forewarned and all that...
• JackOfCrows 5y ago
  Isn't this the latest "Twitter but freeze peach" with Gab and Telegram and Trump's social network and etc.?
  • wy35 5y ago
    Yeah, there’s nothing special about this. “Cancel culture bad” isn’t a viable value proposition. At the end of the day it’s yet another ugly Twitter clone.
    • newsbinator 5y ago
      For a social network the most viable value proposition is "people you want to interact with are here" and secondarily "we won't delete their posts or ban them". If Gettr gets that much right for some audience, they're already past the first Great Filter.
• rvz 5y ago
  It is another social network which is no different to Twitter. Seems to be doing well. Nothing wrong with having alternatives and competition.
• mikewarot 5y ago
  Despite the huge capital flows, attention is the real currency of the internet. As corporations are forced to censorship to protect their bottom line, they cut themselves off from the attention that their customers (the advertisers) are buying. If you've got something to say, it isn't hard to copypaste yourself and get that in front of both audiences. The way we used to have RSS might get inverted to a list of places to post things instead of reading them. I'm signing up, unless they ask for $.
• MerelyMortal 5y ago
  How can it "kill" Twitter if it requires you to tweet codes to claim "reserved" usernames?
• gregjor 5y ago
  The internet gives near-infinite space for social media platforms and everything else. It’s not like Highlander “There can be only one.”
• whoknew1122 5y ago
  Joe Rogan and two people I had to Google joined Gettr, a start-up founded by someone with no tech background. This 'Ask HN' feels more 'Use Ask HN for buzz marketing' than an honest question. Let me ask a question in response: other than being used by Joe Rogan and two people only really known on the alt-right, what makes you think Gettr is remotely close to a Twitter killer?
  • lettergram 5y ago
    Twitters tech isn’t interesting or particularly innovative today. The most popular rails app tutorial goes through the creation of a basic Twitter-like app, for instance. It’s the network effects that’s interesting. I asked because I was curious if anyone here knew of the tech or had any thoughts on that aspect. “Gettr the Twitter killer” is actually their catch phrase for advertising. Hence the title.
    • whoknew1122 5y ago
      The platform is apparently buggy (https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xqva/gettr-is-the-trump-teams-buggy-leaky-twitter-clone https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xqva/gettr-is-the-trump-te...) and the source code has leaked. So if you wanted to see the tech, you could review the source. With regard to network effects, Joe Rogan announced his move to Gettr... on Twitter. That pretty much sums up Gettr's relevance.