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There's probably a lot of excitement to slam Truth.social, but if you look at what they're trying to achieve it's really difficult, and I'm not sure it's a fail

There's probably a lot of excitement to slam Truth.social, but if you look at what they're trying to achieve it's really difficult, and I'm not sure it's a failure yet. Building a social media site is really really difficult, Google failed at it, Facebook looks like it's failing to maintain its position, and there's a long history of sites that fell by the wayside (Digg, Myspace, Freindster etc.), so on that side of things these new right wing sites are tackling a really difficult business problem. So this is a difficult business for people who should be good at it. Then you have to consider it's being run by Devin Nunes - a farmer with no background in technology and whose understanding of social media is so deep that his best known achievement is suing a parody account that claimed to be one of his cows (resulting in the cow going viral). But is it really failing? If Clubhouse had a 1.5 million person waiting list you'd be hearing every VC in silicon Valley screaming about how it's the next big thing and throwing around billion dollar valuations. Having a large waiting list isn't a bad thing, even if it's unintentional. There's absolutely a viable path forward for it as long as it eventually gains some traction. That won't happen until Trump is active on it and that won't happen unless people can freely access it. Trump isn't going to tweet to 5 followers.

throwmeariver1 5y ago
I would not take the waiting list at face value. The onboarding flow is at such a distinctive rate that you can test it yourself by joining it with different accounts and ask yourself if the rate can be this steady over a 24 hour period…
- the_biot 5y ago
  It sounds like you already did that. So what is the signup rate?
rvz 5y ago
Clubhouse launched with only an iOS app in 2020 with a waitlist and globally had 1.5M sign up to it in its first year of launch. Compare that to Truth Social launched in February 2022, also only having an iOS app and waitlist, but is geo-restricted only to the US and also has 1.5M+ sign up on the waitlist in less than a year and immediately is reported as a 'disaster'. Despite what the media is reporting, I think it is quite early to classify a 'launch day disaster' as indicative as the entire product being a total failure.
- 0des 5y ago
  Though it may be wishful thinking in the part of the author, the goal of this is generating clicks, let's be frank. [Some] People will click/engage this on both sides due to the subject nature.
dbbk 5y ago
> Facebook looks like it's failing to maintain its position Facebook (the blue app) has 2.9 billion monthly active users. That's about a third of the human race. And it keeps growing quarter over quarter. So I'm not really sure what metric you're pulling from here.
- boffinism 5y ago
  If I may: Facebook's user numbers have actually started falling [0], so your third sentence is incorrect. Your first two sentences make a decent point, though. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60238565 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60238565
  - dbbk 5y ago
    True, but that's DAU, I was talking about MAU. And it dropped from 1.930bn to 1.929bn, so somewhat insignificant.

throwmeariver1 5y ago

I would not take the waiting list at face value. The onboarding flow is at such a distinctive rate that you can test it yourself by joining it with different accounts and ask yourself if the rate can be this steady over a 24 hour period…

the_biot 5y ago
It sounds like you already did that. So what is the signup rate?

rvz 5y ago

Clubhouse launched with only an iOS app in 2020 with a waitlist and globally had 1.5M sign up to it in its first year of launch. Compare that to Truth Social launched in February 2022, also only having an iOS app and waitlist, but is geo-restricted only to the US and also has 1.5M+ sign up on the waitlist in less than a year and immediately is reported as a 'disaster'. Despite what the media is reporting, I think it is quite early to classify a 'launch day disaster' as indicative as the entire product being a total failure.

0des 5y ago
Though it may be wishful thinking in the part of the author, the goal of this is generating clicks, let's be frank. [Some] People will click/engage this on both sides due to the subject nature.

dbbk 5y ago

> Facebook looks like it's failing to maintain its position Facebook (the blue app) has 2.9 billion monthly active users. That's about a third of the human race. And it keeps growing quarter over quarter. So I'm not really sure what metric you're pulling from here.

boffinism 5y ago
If I may: Facebook's user numbers have actually started falling [0], so your third sentence is incorrect. Your first two sentences make a decent point, though. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60238565 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60238565
- dbbk 5y ago
  True, but that's DAU, I was talking about MAU. And it dropped from 1.930bn to 1.929bn, so somewhat insignificant.