Anyone here remember App.net from back in the day?
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Anyone here remember App.net from back in the day?
Here's an interesting article about "White Flight" from social media.
Is a ‘white flight’ from social media on the horizon?
OPINION - A little thing called App.net that has many buzzing in the tech world might be the latest manifestation of white people's fear of a black planet..
theGrio (web.archive.org)
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@Edent Oh crikey, I remember that. I was one of the original backers.
I desperately wanted an alternative to Twitter, and I wasn't ignorant of the paywall being problematic but (1) I couldn't imagine a way for social media to succeed without charging and (2) I was optimistic that barrier could be pulled down someday, somehow.
With hindsight, I was a dumbass.
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@cariad yup! Me too!
I wrote a bit about it at the time.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/08/app-net-isnt-racist-but-it-does-have-a-privilege-problem/I think it was an excellent experiment. Showed a lot of what would and wouldn't work.
