It's great that nostr was on the list of competitors, as it seems like a better balance between a smart clients that compete in UX and dumb servers that compete in resilience.<p>As it uses just a private-public keypair, it doesn't make me choose a specific server to trust with storing my identity.
> So I think it behooves privileged geeks like myself to help find and improve an alternate home for things like #BlackTwitter.<p>I always suspected these attitudes were common amongst the white leftwing intelligentsia, but here it is in black and white (no pun intended).<p>Here’s the author admitting his White Saviour complex.<p>What causes this behaviour? Is it a form of co-dependency? Or do these white folk feel that publicly and overtly shepherding minority groups will boost their own popularity or influence? Or is it simply virtue-signalling without self-awareness?<p>I just don’t get it.
I remember constant discussions in the last few years that went like this: "If you don't like Twitter, why don't you start your own?" And many people tried, but no one is succeeding so far. I think the reason for that is that Twitter really has no functionality, except for (and that's a BIG one) the Network Effect itself. This Network Effect works the other way as well: if you don't have it, you can't compete with Twitter. The new "microblogging services" will not have network effect by definition, and they can't get traction.<p>Now that Elon Musk is making changes, we are again into the "If you hate Twitter, please you start your own." But I think these new efforts will go the same way as the old ones. You simply do not have the network effect to compete effectively.