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So it is a Twitter clone pretty much based on the screenshot, I'll give it around 1 to 2 years to implode due to bad guidelines, becoming an echo chamber of con

So it is a Twitter clone pretty much based on the screenshot, I'll give it around 1 to 2 years to implode due to bad guidelines, becoming an echo chamber of conspiracy theories and losing most of its users. It will be bleeding money from the start and will try to survive with ads (which not even Twitter is able to) and donations from the hardcore supporters.

robbedpeter 5y ago
It's a mastodon deployment. It's federated and because it's Trump, there's crazy rich people throwing money at him (rich people who are crazy, not crazy rich like Musk or Bezos.) Getting a huge user base on federated social media is great. It won't be long before journalists figure it out and migrate to some left of center federated collective. More, smaller, thematic communities it's good. It took an afternoon for me to spin up and deploy my own mastodon site to be my nouveau social digital home. The more people within the fediverse and the more communities that move away from big tech, the better. They just have to survive the 4chan/antifa trash flood coming their way. Who knows, maybe some code and tooling will come about from whoever maga pays to develop their systems.
tinus_hn 5y ago
This apps users would probably say the mainstream platforms are an echo chamber for the opposite points of view.
- Tanjreeve 5y ago
  It would be pretty dumb seeing as twitter (to single out one) has huge numbers of fascists to communists on it still to this day. Personally I think the problem of "echo chambers" is a minor one compared to the problem of massive unitary platforms where western governments offload political debates on the limits of free speech and what constitutes disinformation to a bunch of tech execs.
  - tinus_hn 5y ago
    Even though there might be different opinions that’s of no help when the platform tries to keep you inside a bubble that only contains opinions that agree with you.

robbedpeter 5y ago

It's a mastodon deployment. It's federated and because it's Trump, there's crazy rich people throwing money at him (rich people who are crazy, not crazy rich like Musk or Bezos.) Getting a huge user base on federated social media is great. It won't be long before journalists figure it out and migrate to some left of center federated collective. More, smaller, thematic communities it's good. It took an afternoon for me to spin up and deploy my own mastodon site to be my nouveau social digital home. The more people within the fediverse and the more communities that move away from big tech, the better. They just have to survive the 4chan/antifa trash flood coming their way. Who knows, maybe some code and tooling will come about from whoever maga pays to develop their systems.

tinus_hn 5y ago

This apps users would probably say the mainstream platforms are an echo chamber for the opposite points of view.

Tanjreeve 5y ago
It would be pretty dumb seeing as twitter (to single out one) has huge numbers of fascists to communists on it still to this day. Personally I think the problem of "echo chambers" is a minor one compared to the problem of massive unitary platforms where western governments offload political debates on the limits of free speech and what constitutes disinformation to a bunch of tech execs.
- tinus_hn 5y ago
  Even though there might be different opinions that’s of no help when the platform tries to keep you inside a bubble that only contains opinions that agree with you.