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Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down
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Exactly... 🤣.. Been looking for Social media alternatives for years and never heard of this one before..
I've never used post and I haven't heard anyone talk about them in a long time but they were pushed as a big deal after Musk bought Twitter. Kara Swisher and a lot of rich tech bros were trying to convince everyone they were the Next Big Thing around the time of the big wave of migrations to Mastodon.
Kara Swisher was on their board. She’s not a journalist.
And it wasn't announced until pretty late that she was. She was teasing it on her podcast like 'stay tuned, I know serious people with money who are ready to launch something big'
Yes, and where is mastodon now? And where is post now? And we see which one was the big deal.
You don't need to convince me. I'm Fediverse all day every day :)
AFAIU, it was an attempt to be purely dedicated to the sorta mainstream centrist political and news and journalism parts of Twitter, which seems to me to make the egotistical mistake of thinking that they’re the ones that made Twitter when it was likely the other way around and they were the ones getting in on the “party” after it “started”.