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I think you have 3 alternatives: 1. Create a Twitter account. 2. Stop using Twitter. 3. Use Facebook, Tumblr, or Mastodon for microblogging. Twitter started
by AlienRobot 3y ago
I think you have 3 alternatives:
1. Create a Twitter account.
2. Stop using Twitter.
3. Use Facebook, Tumblr, or Mastodon for microblogging.
Twitter started requiring a login screen to view posts, but it's not the first website to do so. Pinterest and Instagram have done this for ages. We all hate it, but it's business.
I wonder why Tumblr isn't more successful than it is. It used to be a pretty well-known platform, and it's almost identical to Twitter, but while every celebrity seems to have a Twitter account, nobody seems to have a Tumblr account. Perhaps they do, they just don't tell anybody about it?
I wish Mastodon wasn't a thing. I believe federation is a terrible idea for normal computer users due to its non-obvious dangers, specially as more people will begin using Mastodon as if it were Facebook. I saw on Reddit that someone is building an open source, non-federated Reddit clone. That's what I think would have been better: an open-source, non-federated Twitter clone. Does anybody know of something like that, by the way?
- jsheard 3y agoTumblr used to be a lot more popular, but its collapse is usually attributed to them banning NSFW content. Not everyone was posting or viewing NSFW of course, but there was enough overlap in audiences to cause a cascade which ended with nearly everyone, NSFW or not, moving to Twitter. It's a classic Yahoo acquisition fumble, they bought it for $1.1 billion and ended up selling it on to Automattic for just $3 million post-exodus.
- paulddraper 3y agoNone of those other platforms allowed NSFW, and even when it did allow it, Tumblr had a fraction of the popularity.
- yifanl 3y agoTwitter might not allow NSFW content, but it has a lot of NSFW content nonetheless.
- PaulHoule 3y agoYou could just run a Mastodon instance that doesn't federate.
- AlienRobot 3y agoI see. Does anybody do that, though?
- PaulHoule 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
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- prmoustache 3y agoIsn't it what Donald Trump did with its mastodon instance? Or is it federated?
- ajot 3y agoI've recently read TFA from this discussion, and felt tempted to do the same. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38825520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38825520
- dspillett 3y ago> I wonder why Tumblr isn't more successful than it is. It used to be a pretty well-known platform, and it's almost identical to Twitter, Twitter won over that and a number of other options on novelty, inertia, and notoriety, essentially. A mix of right-place-right-time, further luck, and network effects. Tumblr did better than many alternatives, but eventually shot itself in the foot (well, was shot in the foot by its parent) when it alienated a chunk of the audience it did have by deleting a lot of content in order to appease potential advertisers.
- NikkiA 3y ago> in order to appease potential advertisers. It wasn't advertisers, it was apple, they'd been delisted from the app store, and getting rid of the NSFW material was part of the deal that apple would allow them back with.