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>predictions 0. a twitter clone backed by a few billion VC dollars will emerge with the promise to continue the practices described in the twitter files, and t
by throwaway0x7E6 4y ago
>predictions
0. a twitter clone backed by a few billion VC dollars will emerge with the promise to continue the practices described in the twitter files, and the refugees will flock to the warm and familiar embrace
- capitalsigma 4y agoThe year of the decentralized social network is right around the corner, just past the year of the Linux desktop
- _chu1 4y agoDo we need social media? Can this just be the age of "maybe we should all stop mindlessly scrolling through crap we dont care about"
- phailhaus 4y agoBut we do care about it, that's why we're all scrolling through it.
- gamerDude 4y agoI think there is a difference between actually caring (when you reflect on your life, it is important to you) and having a rush of dopamine that makes you feel the need to check these apps and continue scrolling.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoWho gets to define 'actually caring'?
- nonethewiser 4y agoIt's a drug that younger generations have taken their entire life. It's not going away.
- deadly_syn 4y agoYou say that, but its my parents who are the ones still clinging to social media out of the rest of my immediate family. Thsts entirely anecdotal of course, but I think phrasing it as an issue of the newer generstions doesnt encapsulate the whole problemspace. If anything id say those who didnt grow up with tech is even more susceptable to dark patterns.
- anigbrowl 4y agoDo we need the internet? Do we need electricity? ... Do we need writing? (Plato, 600BC)
- 082349872349872 4y agoDo we need drinking cups/glasses? (Diogenes, ca. 350BC) (btw, anigbrowl, in case you haven't already seen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942280 )
- anigbrowl 4y agoI had missed it! Thanks so much for following up with that.
- yonaguska 4y ago
- CM30 4y agoEh, I'm starting to suspect maybe nothing will replace Twitter. Or that nothing consistent will anyway. We've got Mastodon, and it's doing a bit better. We had Hive, which did okay til the security issues and shut down. Cohost and Post kinda... exist I suppose? And there are a few more I can't remember. I've got an account on each one, and about 1/10th of those I follow exist across all of them combined. Maybe most people just don't care about a Twitter replacement and are fine without one.
- serverholic 4y agoI always try to steer people away from Post because one of their founders thinks prejudice based on net worth is up there with racism and homophobia.
- jimmytidey 4y agoI'm an unashamed Mastodon advocate. Firstly, a significant fraction of the most interesting accounts I follow on Twitter have moved to Mastodon. Secondly, Mastodon feels incredibly fresher than Twitter, which has completely ossified. Thirdly, I know this sounds slightly contradictory, but it really is quite a lot like Twitter, in terms of recreating the good aspects of Twitter.
- dack 4y agowhat does "fresher" mean to you?
- helf 4y agoNew shiny!
- jimmytidey 4y agoYes this. I've been on Twitter for decade, it's nice to be somewhere different.
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