Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?
In the past several months I have been struggling with Twitter and looking for the value there. Even though I've tried to limit the number of followers and optimize the usage of the service, the value of using it has been tremendously declining.
On the other hand I feel very sorry to say goodbye to it, because Twitter was inseparable part of my online life for so many years. I think that the service introduced many good things and helped to change the World, but now, it just feel old, tired and not worthy anymore.
Do you guys have any alternative to it? Some service which is fresh as Twitter used to be 5 years ago? Do you know any emerging new platforms where I can possibly move? If not, what would be the ideal for "next gen" Twitter?
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If the point is to amass followers, then you are using it for marketing a product of some kind? How successful is that?
I understand there was a spring uprising of free speech in some places that haven't had much of that. Did that really change things for the better long term in those places?
It just sounds like millions of people shouting things in an echo chamber.
I am not trolling, I really don't understand the medium or the value. What would you miss by not using it?
Writing also helps develop ideas. Trying to explain things well in short sentences helps develop your mind. Surely this isn't useless.
Frankly, I never figured out why people so many folks don't like it.
(Yes, more than one pun in that. But also, semi-seriously -- something that takes and lasts longer than 140 often inflamatory characters.)
https://foolow.com
A few things I want to try:
- dismiss all seen links on a page (on mobile in my prototype you flick away a page like a card) by default
- sort by rating rod chronologically, but NOT public/democratic rating, only rating by the one who posts. This is the main thing I want to try :)
- auto-retweet (you can make an account that is essentially a currated list of people or curate "editors" of an imaginary magazine)
- if you retweet normally, you have to give a new rating for your followers
Mainly for sharing links. I want to allow people to share unimportant stuff and still getting the important stuff across. And i want to avoid a suggestion engine, only direct "i trust your rating personally" realationships.
Can I contact you by other means? Email or some instant messaging? I can sent you an invite to my little alpha.
People of course might abuse the rating, so the question is if one should normalize or at least fine-tune by having rating up and down in your own feed. And if you sort just by rating, without decay, a new user sees ooold posts at the top (because he has not dismissed any by going to the next page).
Won't it get annoying if new posts of lesser ranking keep showing up first?
And if you're up for it, let's chat a bit or skype.
Can I PM on foolow?
Additionally, when they are saying that they are not censored, can I censor it to my preferences? For example, one of the biggest problems on Twitter is lack of "negative keywords" filter. I like to follow people, but I can't control what they tweet about and I don't really care about some topics such as grammy, fashion etc. I would love to avoid these keywords, not the entire person.
Yes. There is no such thing as blocking, but you can mute users, words, phrases, tags, etc. I don't think you can set up user-specific negative keyword filters, though. If you want to filter the grammies, for example, it takes effect site-wide.
There are a lot of missing features because Gab is still young, but it has promise. I'm a little surprised they haven't opened it up to the public yet. I think they wanted to complete the mobile apps first. Apple's giving them a hard time.