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I don't think the failure of Gettr or Truth Social or Gab, or any of these other networks is down to technical chops that a Musk-backed dev team would have that

by smcl 5y ago

I don't think the failure of Gettr or Truth Social or Gab, or any of these other networks is down to technical chops that a Musk-backed dev team would have that a Trump-backed dev team wouldn't. I think it's more down to the users. Gab/Gettr is attractive for the alt-right because you can say anything you like[0], Truth Social is attractive for Trump fans because it's backed by Trump himself. A hypothetical Elon Musk social network would probably be popular with fans of Tesla, SpaceX. Twitter is popular with hundreds of these sorts of categories of people, it's way more universal. [0] - sort of, I've seen stuff mocking the alt-right getting taken down which is pretty funny

actionfromafar 5y ago
[0] - It's not witch friendly, it's witches only, in other words.
nicce 5y ago
This is the current social network in nutshell. Almost anyone has technical capabilities to make them, but you need to find users. Someone with influnce can pull specific kind of users. It is becoming like a cult. Like ycombinator is its one kind of cult.
rchaud 5y ago
Truth Social doesn't seem to be that popular. Trump himself hasn't 'truthed' on there in over a month.
- smcl 5y ago
  Yep it's really not popular. They had some very grand plans, distributing an infographic showing that there was a "Truth" group of companies in the pipeline[0] which were planned to directly with a number of big players in the traditional and social media spaces. I don't think anyone believed they would succeed, but if even Trump has lost interest I think the writing's on the wall [0] - https://i.insider.com/6171b3c713a46d0012b3c7c9 https://i.insider.com/6171b3c713a46d0012b3c7c9 - it's from this article, in case that link is ethereal https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-media-company-pitch-deck-app-social-media-truth-2021-10#-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-media-company-p...

by smcl 5y ago

actionfromafar 5y ago

[0] - It's not witch friendly, it's witches only, in other words.

nicce 5y ago

This is the current social network in nutshell. Almost anyone has technical capabilities to make them, but you need to find users. Someone with influnce can pull specific kind of users. It is becoming like a cult. Like ycombinator is its one kind of cult.

rchaud 5y ago

Truth Social doesn't seem to be that popular. Trump himself hasn't 'truthed' on there in over a month.

smcl 5y ago
Yep it's really not popular. They had some very grand plans, distributing an infographic showing that there was a "Truth" group of companies in the pipeline[0] which were planned to directly with a number of big players in the traditional and social media spaces. I don't think anyone believed they would succeed, but if even Trump has lost interest I think the writing's on the wall [0] - https://i.insider.com/6171b3c713a46d0012b3c7c9 https://i.insider.com/6171b3c713a46d0012b3c7c9 - it's from this article, in case that link is ethereal https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-media-company-pitch-deck-app-social-media-truth-2021-10#-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-media-company-p...