#post.news

[solarbird]

This... this is kinda fucked up. “net worth” as a protected category on a venture-capitalist-funded twitter alternative.

This is also not the current version of this page. The current version of the post dot news signup page adds gender identity and silently deletes “net worth.”

But it was in fact in there. Wayback Machine shows it.

And they did a silent edit to remove it.

There are a few reasons not to go to post dot news, including that they don’t use URLs so it’s a pretty hardcore walled-garden/silo attempt. It’s the opposite of mastodon and in the future - if auttomatic goes through with its plans to adopt activitypub - tumblr.

But this... this smells bad.

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Noam Bardin - Chief Poster Meet Post: A Social Platform for Real People, Real News, and Civil Conversations.

Remember when social media was fun, introduced you to big ideas and cool people, and actually made you smarter? Remember when it didn't waste your time and make you angry or sad? When you could disagree with someone without being threatened or insulted? We want to bring that back with Post.

We believe that all humans are created equal, endowed with unalienable rights that include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, regardless of their gender, religion, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, net worth, or beliefs. If you do not agree with this principle, Post is not for you.

We believe in freedom of speech and will oppose any government's attempt to censor speech on our platform. However, we have rules, which we plan to rigorously enforce via content moderation, with the help of our community.

[towlerknows]

Post.

If your main reason for using Twitter is/was news, there's a new social media site called Post that is specifically designed for news. Kind of looks like if Twitter and Tumblr had a baby website, but reads like a newspaper where you can choose the types of stories you like.

It's still kind of social media and some people do chat or post non-news things, but mostly it's focused on news. A lot of the journalists and news organizations I respect are there - like Reuters and Rachel Maddow, so I thought I'd recommend it.

There's a wait to get an account, but I got mine after only about a week. One caveat, it's free and has a lot of free content and articles, but some articles you pay for in microtransactions. Like you "pay" 3-5 points to read an article that interests you. Points are cheap, you get 50 free to start, then can purchase them. I think I paid $14 for 1000.

I've been yelling for this for years. I don't want to subscribe to the New York Times, but I will pay 50 cents or a dollar to read an article that particularly interests me. Post is way cheaper than that.

Anyway, I'm really loving this and wanted to share.

How do I sign up for and use Post?

[tagnoob]

Twitter Communities in the Season of the Seven Pretenders

An object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. -Newton’s First Law, as recited by ChatGPT Here we are, back with another post about Twitter.  I will not refer to it by Elon’s current name, X.  At some point I suspect some adult in the room is going to make him go back…

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Twitter Alternatives as Elon Continues to Fiddle

I’ve been through at least three weekends since Elon Musk hauled a vanity into Twitter HQ for the most belabored sight gag ever, where everybody in my timeline was saying farewell because we were sure that the services was going to go down like the Titanic that very day. Can we keep living like this? And then we woke up the next morning and found out that the mass firings or Elon shutting off…

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[aulia-m]

Post.News is being hailed as the saner Twitter for news folks but has no resources to run it properly

The news social network was founded by former Waze CEO Noam Bardin shortly after he left the company in early 2021. The startup is being thrusted to the surface and forced itself to launch far earlier than expected thanks to Twitter’s dismantling from within, so it’s reasonable to expect many things not working, not available, or looked patched up.

NYU Professor and podcasting celebrity Scott Galloway is an investor on the site and has managed to get his podcasting partner Kara Swisher and plenty other Twitter big names to not only join but also promote the site.

However, there are concerns over the fundamentals of the site, which may or may not change in the future, but may alarm people regardless. The Washington Post’s Engineering Lead for Privacy and Security Compliance Aram Zucker-Scharff ran up quite a thread of the ones he’s come across.

Post.News makes publishers syndicate their stories to the site or publish directly there for them to be able to receive payments for articles. This means they don’t (yet?) actually act as a paywall partner with publishers and don’t direct traffic to the original site. 

I’m on the fence about creating placeholder accounts for the actual news publishers but it’s incredible that you currently have to pay to read your own article that you publish there and they’re charging for wire stories that are freely accessible on the publisher’s website. 

Aram said Post.News gives him similar vibes to Medium. There are several differences, though. Medium started with the blogging angle and charges a monthly subscription fee while Post started with the Twitter angle and charges fees per article.

Veteran tech journalist Dan Gillmor isn’t vibing with Post.News. He said, 

Major Twitter influencers are pushing a supposed replacement called Post. It may be great (I'm not allowed to use it so far) but it's yet another proprietary, closed (in terms of interoperability), centralized social network. 

 Great for the A list and vCs. Not great for me.

If I leave Twitter, which is plainly feeling the effects of too little engineering and too much right-wing poison, it will be for something like Mastodon (I'm http://mastodon.social/@dangillmor there).  It will NOT be yet another centralized place where, someday, a sociopath CEO rules.

[iheartvelma]

Divide and Conquer: The Tech Bro Plan to Eliminate American Sanity

Tracy Beanz, TwitterFiles, Post.news, Marc Andreessen and #QElon

Plutes gonna plute

[xenofact]

A Short Note on Mastodon et al

Falling in love with Mastodon, but one thing I like about major "Twitter Refugee" sites is they're DIFFERENT.

Tumblr rocks it old school and gives us that blogging/community vibe. Solid place for everything.

Post.news is news and convo heavy, a bit straight-laced, has a tipping system, and is very moderated. Good for information.

Mastodon is pretty much your big follow/big outreach microblogging system. Twitter without ads or algorithm. (There's also the forked Counter.Social, which is more a "single big community of people who have no time for bullshit and want to socialize.")

[amithaknight]

social media?

so i'm now coming back to this tumblr account, i started a mastodon account and am also on post.news. I feel like i still haven't found my fav new hangout spot after (mostly) leaving twitter, but i guess this jumping around will have to do for now!