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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] 57 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Exactly... 🤣.. Been looking for Social media alternatives for years and never heard of this one before..

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Kara Swisher was on their board. She’s not a journalist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and where is mastodon now? And where is post now? And we see which one was the big deal.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

You don't need to convince me. I'm Fediverse all day every day :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

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”.