Comment by waonderer
5 days ago
Which platform provides the same network effect? Bsky? Mastodon?
I don't see the popular Twitter personalities there such as naval, balajis, paulg, etc. or folks from TOPT, etc.
5 days ago
Which platform provides the same network effect? Bsky? Mastodon?
I don't see the popular Twitter personalities there such as naval, balajis, paulg, etc. or folks from TOPT, etc.
The closest to what Twitter used to be is Bsky. The model isn't perfect and some of its features are still not quite there, but it has replaced my Twitter usage entirely. And they've managed the large user surge pretty well. I've seen some developers I follow who cross post getting more engagement on Bsky than X despite a lower follower count there.
Most of the people you mentioned wouldn't risk their money for something like moral values so they haven't left X. A large number of interesting, less self motivated people have migrated already.
> Which platform provides the same network effect?
None, obviously - every network is unique. However, that doesn't contradict the premise. If one accepts that continuing to use twitter makes one "part of the problem", a desire to read PG's tweets doesn't seem like a meaningful justification. In my view, the only justification is "I don't care how twitter operates" or "I think twitter's new mission is good".
I don't benefit from being plugged into any of that. Do you?
I mentioned some global accounts that are very generic, but I do follow some folks from my country (India) who share valuable content for my field of work.
Such content doesn't seem possible on other platforms. FB is dead here. Insta is only images/videos. Threads is a no-no. I don't know any alternatives as of yet where my network is active.
I have no idea who those people are.
That's alright. BTW, paulg is the founder of YCombinator.
I mean, I suppose it really depends on what you want out of a social network. Some combo of mastodon and bluesky is fine for me, but then I didn't follow any of those people in the first place.
If you want celeb VCs, then, yeah, you're probably stuck with Twitter. Most people don't, though.
Makes sense. What other platforms do you know where we can get access to the network of entrepreneurs, thought-leaders, governments, and authors? I am considering text-based social apps only.
> entrepreneurs
Dunno, no interest.
> thought-leaders
I've never been quite sure what people mean when they say this.
> governments
An increasing number of governments, government agencies and politicians have presence on Bluesky or Mastodon or both. The EC has its _own mastodon instance_ (though, confusingly, some EC agencies are on other instances, or are just on bluesky).
> authors
Mostly Bluesky, also Threads to some extent.
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