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Social networks gain users with having more users than other social networks, not with making their code public.
You're arguing against a different point, not one that I made in my post. I don't believe an open source clone of Twitter is the solution. My point is more about the maintainer of the software being a nonprofit or foundation. Not an individual or for-profit business.
Also, as I mentioned in my reply to generaltso, Mastodon (which I think is a cool piece of software) is not a Twitter clone. Though, I believe the founder said the general UI is inspired by Tweetdeck specifically.
Community Engineer at CircleCI (formerly Developer Evangelist at CircleCI and Linode). U.S. Navy Veteran, Write the Docs NYC organizer. Mets fan for life.
Because nobody is on Twitter because of the awesome company behind it.
Nobody would be on Quitter/Mastodon/Diaspora/Friendica just because of the awesome license (which you can easily see by just seeing that nothing is going on there).
Community Engineer at CircleCI (formerly Developer Evangelist at CircleCI and Linode). U.S. Navy Veteran, Write the Docs NYC organizer. Mets fan for life.
People are upset with Twitter. You can see that by the crazy amount of tweets directed towards Jack Dorsey. People are actually leaving (who knows for how long) Facebook but that's a whole different shit show.
And they're still not leaving for Mastodon or whatever the next "better Twitter" will be because Twitter has everything they need: an audience.
What's lost?
The fight for a Twitter replacement. You won't succeed. Nobody succeeded before. Not even the GNU project which has more than enough resources for advertising its stuff.
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Maybe. Discord came out with a clear target demographic gamers and that seems to have worked well for them.
To be clear, this is not something that I'd necessarily do, I was curious on people's' thoughts. This would be a large undertaking. Product philosophy-wise, I wonder if it would work.
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You're arguing against a different point, not one that I made in my post. I don't believe an open source clone of Twitter is the solution. My point is more about the maintainer of the software being a nonprofit or foundation. Not an individual or for-profit business.
Also, as I mentioned in my reply to
generaltso
, Mastodon (which I think is a cool piece of software) is not a Twitter clone. Though, I believe the founder said the general UI is inspired by Tweetdeck specifically.Which would not make the product more successful, so it just won't matter.
What are your points? Why not?
Because nobody is on Twitter because of the awesome company behind it.
Nobody would be on Quitter/Mastodon/Diaspora/Friendica just because of the awesome license (which you can easily see by just seeing that nothing is going on there).
Sorry, this is lost.
People are upset with Twitter. You can see that by the crazy amount of tweets directed towards Jack Dorsey. People are actually leaving (who knows for how long) Facebook but that's a whole different shit show.
What's lost? We're having a conversation.
And they're still not leaving for Mastodon or whatever the next "better Twitter" will be because Twitter has everything they need: an audience.
The fight for a Twitter replacement. You won't succeed. Nobody succeeded before. Not even the GNU project which has more than enough resources for advertising its stuff.
I suppose you may have a better chance at success creating a domain specific twitter clone.
Maybe. Discord came out with a clear target demographic gamers and that seems to have worked well for them.
To be clear, this is not something that I'd necessarily do, I was curious on people's' thoughts. This would be a large undertaking. Product philosophy-wise, I wonder if it would work.