Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down

moon, 25 days ago

Never heard of it

AbackDeckWARLORD, 25 days ago

Funny because I only know this company through a LinkedIn posting they had up last month. It explains why they never contacted me I guess.

Windhover, 26 days ago

I tried it, and can’t remember why I removed it. I think it wasn’t straight forward to read articles, and it wasn’t really clear how the user can control the micropayments.

Journalists won’t accept this but it was also a test of the degree to which they’re the center of the conversation in this media space.

RGB3x3, 26 days ago

What it should have been is exclude the social media crap, create a browser extension that charges users and allows them to get through the paywalls, then it pays the journals.

Using a separate app makes the whole thing more of a hindrance than convenience. I want to be able to click on an article posted anywhere, load it in my mobile browser, and seamlessly get charged a couple cents to read the article.

squirrelwithnut, 26 days ago

TIL of Post News.

Thorny_Insight, 26 days ago

Never even heard of them

ArugulaZ, 26 days ago

Sounds like Cohost is circling the bowl, too. And what happened to that social network started by two teenage girls? There were so many of these damn things I couldn't keep track of it all. It was like the web search industry before the Google meteor struck.

LunarLoony, 26 days ago

According to this (rather lengthy) page, Cohost’s financial situation isn’t the best and was always on pretty shaky ground - d-shoot.net/cohostfinance.html

shortwavesurfer, 27 days ago

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.

iopq, 26 days ago

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

shortwavesurfer, 26 days 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

RozhkiNozhki, 27 days ago

Who?

electro1, 27 days ago

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

breakfastmtn, 27 days ago

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.

shortwavesurfer, 27 days ago

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

breakfastmtn, 27 days ago

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

ShittyBeatlesFCPres, 27 days ago

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

breakfastmtn, 26 days 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’

maegul, 26 days 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”.