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How long before the exiting engineers realize they can just walk across the street and start their own better, more “hard core” Twitter?
by ttul 4y ago
How long before the exiting engineers realize they can just walk across the street and start their own better, more “hard core” Twitter?
- joelthelion 4y agoIt takes more than just engineering talent to start a successful Twitter competitor at this stage. Platform stickiness is a real thing.
- cma 4y agoMastodon is just about to hit 7 million users and seems to be taking off. Time will tell if it can really overcome the network effects though: https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount/109363751197760331 https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount/10936375119776...
- pmlnr 4y agoHeh, no. All these centralized silos need marketing hype. Otherwise Diaspora* would have succeeded.
- ttul 4y agoI’m answering my own question, sort of. From HN this morning: https://post.news/?r=Bo9HV https://post.news/?r=Bo9HV