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Why hasn't a group of newspapers and other media together launched an exact knockoff of old twitter yet? Just neutral ground for all of them. If they have a whi
by ck2 3y ago
Why hasn't a group of newspapers and other media together launched an exact knockoff of old twitter yet? Just neutral ground for all of them. If they have a whitehouse press pass, they're cleared as legit.
It's not technically hard to build and if you run your own servers not that expensive even at scale in the millions.
We have blazingly fast web servers and database software these days compared to when twitter and facebook first launched, even the hardware is exponentially faster and you don't have to support SMS anymore like how twitter got it's start.
- pjc50 3y agoBuild a social network and nobody will come. It's the audience that's valuable, and on Old Twitter the huge diversity of sources. It used to be a valuable input into news, and that's one of the things that basically been destroyed without replacement. No doubt individual journos are keeping eyes on parts of Mastodon, but it's fundamentally not as suitable.
- ck2 3y agoMastodon is basically wordpress micro-blogging with trackbacks We actually need a monolith If every major newspaper and media outlet had their own unified independent social media network and mentioned it at the end of every article and video segment, it would be millions of people within a year. That's literally how twitter audience was built, every media outlet kept mentioning it the first few years.