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Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”

The Andreessen Horowitz-backed platform launched in a closed beta in November 2022, but now it’s set to shutter “within the next few weeks.” It serves as a social platform that also offers users ad-free access to paywalled content from publishers such as Fortune, Business Insider, Wired, The Boston Globe, and others. All users have to do is pay a “few cents” per article instead of signing up for a subscription to each publication.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I have literally never heard of this platform. It just goes to show how successful it was. At this point, unless you are joining the fediverse, you are probably going to fail. Even nostr has fedi crossposters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nostr is a curious case, because the organization is superior to the Fediverse.

I have already lost two accounts due to servers shutting down so I moved fully to lemmy.world

This means there's a reason to centralize since other servers can go offline without telling you. No way to move your data if you don't know that you needed to.

If a Nostr relay shuts down I wouldn't even know about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That is definately true. Fedi makes the centralization aspect slightly better while nostr completely eliminates it. I use both because I like the reddit style interface of Lemmy and Nostr doesn't have anything like that. So far as I have seen all the nostr clients are Twitter like clients just like messed it on but that interface doesn't work as well for me