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I wanted Mastodon to replace Twitter so we can finally see a mainstream Federated social media, to break free of corporate control over social expressions. But
by jacooper 4y ago
I wanted Mastodon to replace Twitter so we can finally see a mainstream Federated social media, to break free of corporate control over social expressions.
But with the Hive there is nothing unique, its a Twitter clone, which doesn't offer any technical or operational benefits, and also no major features.
if we are still going to use a centralized network, might as well just continue using Twitter, a network with an existing social circle.
- stolen_biscuit 4y agoThe problem of Twitters ownership and moderation remains
- jacooper 4y agoAs if Hive is going to be any better?
- MBCook 4y agoIt may be. I don’t know their policies. But whatever you thought of the old Twitter policy, that obviously changed. And they could’ve made that change without a new owner if they had chosen to. He who owns the server sets the rules.
- lern_too_spel 4y agojwz says Marc Andreessen is an investor, so no.
- naravara 4y agoGot a price on Andreessen being an investor in Hive? I just checked in Crunchbase and it looks like they’ve raised $3M but no specifics. And all I’m able to find is that it’s from an unnamed angel investor. $3M seems small potatoes for Andreessen unless he’s trying to do a Tab vs Diet Coke thing and corner all the options.
- zimpenfish 4y agoNo, he says he's an investor in Post.News - "Post Dot News also seems absolutely vile. First of all, Marc Andreessen is an investor [...]"
- pmarreck 4y agoWhat's the "problem"?
- pelorat 4y agoThat 75% of Twitters userbase, per their own admission, is not from the USA, and fall under laws that requires Twitter to do better at moderating their platform. https://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-official-warns-elon-musk-changes-needed-at-twitter-11669833755 https://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-official-warns-elon-musk-cha... I mean, would be quite sad for Elon if those non-US nations pulled Twitter from their markets.
- dcow 4y agoI thought that had been solved recently, no?
- concordDance 4y agoIs this about Trump, Kanye and the Babylon Bee being unbanned?
- dom96 4y ago> its a Twitter clone Is it? From what I've seen it's more of a Instagram clone and I am stumped as to why folks are switching to it as a Twitter alternative.