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I feel like setting up the social media is a solved problem. And while getting users is hard, if you hook up to the fediverse, you can piggy back off other Pla
by Decabytes 28d ago
I feel like setting up the social media is a solved problem. And while getting users is hard, if you hook up to the fediverse, you can piggy back off other
Platforms. I think the harder problem is making it profitable
- MikhailTal 28d ago> if you hook up to the fediverse No this is the hard problem. HN people live in a bubble. Anything else than signup with oauth and then having access to everyone and its too hard and 99% of people will click away.
- SoftTalker 28d agoI think the friction is higher than that. With few exceptions I basically won't use any new service that requires me to create an account. I do all my online shopping on sites that offer guest checkout. Zero chance I'm creating any new social accounts at this point.
- MikhailTal 27d agoAgain, this is HN bubble stuff. The vast majority of people do not mind oauth or account.
- mitxela 27d agoYou using the word oauth means you're in the same bubble. People want signup with Google or Apple or even better, username/password signup or zero signup