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One wonders if Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon are working on a replacement platform?

• lcnmrn 4y ago
  Subreply is an alternative, but it is demodded on HN every time it reaches front page.
• prawn 4y ago
  Google and Meta at least would be crazy if they weren't doing something quietly on the side. Are publicly traded companies allowed to work on a skunkworks-type project available to the public without revealing that officially?
  • ISL 4y ago
    Yes, including Lockheed Martin, who has the original Skunk Works.
    • prawn 4y ago
      I'd wondered if they could do that because of the nature of their industry, or it remaining on the R&D side rather than a publicly marketing project until it was proven.
• ISL 4y ago
  Probably not. Twitter is wonderful as a public service/utility, but it is unclear if it will ever be profitable. I thought Twitter could never die, but if acts like this continue, Twitter's users will slip through Elon's fingers.
• Steltek 4y ago
  By now, any Google social product is DOA. After Wave/Plus/etc, a new site won't gain significant early adopter attention. They're better off buying an existing thing or spinning up their own improved AP/Masto service, taking a page from the gmail playbook.