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> 100k people would install this, and you’d scrape Twitter quite quickly. Yeah, uh, definitely. > Tons of creators would migrate for the FREE MONEY! ... Even
by bscphil 5y ago
> 100k people would install this, and you’d scrape Twitter quite quickly.
Yeah, uh, definitely.
> Tons of creators would migrate for the FREE MONEY! ... Even lurkers will use TWITCHAIN front end because it doesn’t have ads and fake “trending” topics.
So the whole gimmick here is that supposedly you're going to get ordinary users to switch (i.e. install your extension that puts them on a duplicate site)? Actually, if you succeed at anything at all you're going to run into the issue that the people who want to use your site are, for the lack of a better word, cringe. Most people are like me and won't use it exactly because of the sort of audience this kind of supposed "Twitter alternative" would draw. That's if they even care, and most people don't.
(I realize describing people as "cringe" is judgmental sounding, but there's really not a better word here from the point of view of the people who I'd call "normies".)
- Kiro 5y agoOnly "normies" call stuff "cringe".
- TomSwirly 5y agoFreak here. Blockchain stuff is super-cringe to almost everyone. "It's called blockchain because I block u."
- TillE 5y agoSeriously, "cringe" (as a non-verb) has been incredibly widespread and lame for a couple years now. Mostly used by literal children, as far as I can tell.
- bscphil 5y agoI mean, yes, that's why I used it. I'm implicitly calling myself (and most people) "normies".