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  1. 2 years later, the Post.news domain is dead as the proverbial dodo, and FlipBoard and NewsCast are doing essentially the same thing successful in the fediverse. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't feeling just a little smug : P

    #NewsMedia #PostNews

  2. Remember when #PostNews launched and the owner wrote a manifesto with a line about how we should be nicer to billionaires lmao

  3. Post.news closes down tomorrow. What can we learn from it?

    Monetizing posts, with profits going to the author, is difficult but possible without relying on crypto. Kudos for the attempt!

    Focusing on one aspect - news - diminishes your user base to a specific interest group.

    And, being a closed instance without an API or federation to other platforms made survival difficult.

    #PostNews #Fediverse

  4. #postnews is again telling me they are shutting down. I want to be nice but they could have built sustainable services within the #ActivityPub ecosystem. It would have helped everyone thrive. They knew that. They weren't as ignorant of the options as most of their users. They could have helped improve any problems or deficiencies they identified in what was already available. instead they wanted to be the hero and get rich. I guess I'm sorry they fell for the Hollywood version of capitalism.

  5. @starrwulfe @evan Yep. #PostNews had potential, & I believe that if they would have allowed custom domains for a fee & activated #ActivityPub, they would have been as successful as #MicroBlog.

    Throw in #Tumblr importing & it would have thrived.

  6. Post News, a #Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down because it “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”

    theverge.com/2024/4/19/2413501

    #PostNews #Twitter #SocialMedia

  7. #PostNews ci saluta. Pare che avessero in programma anche di implementare #ActivityPub ed entrare nel #Fediverso.

    Cosa ci insegna questa cosa: che la diversificazione va benissimo ma occorre anche avere la forza e la capacità di aggregarsi sui progetti che hanno più chance di fare la differenza, evitando di estinguersi prematuramente. 😁 😉

    post.news/@/noam/2fJw4PYRFjya3

  8. #PostNews, a #Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of #ElonMusk’s takeover, is shutting down. #NoamBardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of #Waze, writes that #PostNews “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.”

    theverge.com/2024/4/19/2413501 #SocialMedia #Technology #News

  9. @w7voa I tried #PostNews but it felt like a refined version of #Tumblr, just for news geeks. I remember them promising #Fediverse support, but that never arrived.

  10. I can't remember who exactly pointed it out, it might've been @taylorlorenz, but there was a part in Post News' mission statement that was very concerned about people being mean to billionaires.

    Post News ended up the type of platform you'd expect given that ethos.

    It became a centrist hellscape, home to all the self-important Trump-era neo-liberal personalities born from pre-Elon Twitter.

    Shout out to the hardworking devs, but I will not miss #PostNews.

  11. @ukuku @MarSolRivas I tried it briefly, but the money demands were just so in your face.

    I’m totally in agreement that people need to get paid for their work, donate to Wikipedia, pay news providers within reason, but I’m not going to harassed and harangued on a daily basis. Nay, hourly basis!

    I gave up pretty quickly on #PostNews

  12. Not surprised.

    #PostNews is Dee Eee Dee. Dead.

    Their payment model was so in your face that it was actually rude and uncouth.

    Not going to shed a tear. Sorry. 🤷‍♂️

    From: @MarSolRivas
    mastodon.online/@MarSolRivas/1

  13. #PostNews is still out there. Had completely forgotten about the micro-transaction place.

  14. Is anyone else I know using post.news?

    I can’t decide if I like it.

    Nor: whether the name is meant to be a joke.

    https://post.news/@/alecmuffett

    https://alecmuffett.com/article/109298

    #platforms #postNews