Wild to see a commercial product built on SSB contribute almost nothing to its design skip to another protocol because "SSB isn't good enough", meanwhile the Manyverse team is rebuilding the whole thing on a shoestring budget.
@Andrew Chou I'm honestly not even sure what they're aiming to build.
Even with SSB I've thought about what a commercial product on the protocol could look like ("Pay for super likes", "Super follows", Paid stickers, cloud storage) and nothing they've done so far feels like anything the FOSS alternatives don't already provide.
It feels like they just thought "SSB + VC money = Better" and I fear they're repeating this again.
yeah easy for me to assume their intentions, but from an outsider's view they were fighting a major uphill battle that I wouldn't subject myself to 😅.
1. SSB on a non-JS stack...well you know how things are at the moment. Lots of technical work for them just to reach a minimal feature set
2. Social media is hard to get people to pay for, regardless of what you provide. If you're looking to build a company that aims for the masses, seems like a VC-indebted journey from the start
Andrew Chou
in reply to Lucid00 • • •to be fair, I don't blame them for moving on.
then again, I wouldn't have tried in the first place 😄
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Lucid00
in reply to Andrew Chou • •@Andrew Chou I'm honestly not even sure what they're aiming to build.
Even with SSB I've thought about what a commercial product on the protocol could look like ("Pay for super likes", "Super follows", Paid stickers, cloud storage) and nothing they've done so far feels like anything the FOSS alternatives don't already provide.
It feels like they just thought "SSB + VC money = Better" and I fear they're repeating this again.
Andrew Chou
in reply to Lucid00 • • •yeah easy for me to assume their intentions, but from an outsider's view they were fighting a major uphill battle that I wouldn't subject myself to 😅.
1. SSB on a non-JS stack...well you know how things are at the moment. Lots of technical work for them just to reach a minimal feature set
2. Social media is hard to get people to pay for, regardless of what you provide. If you're looking to build a company that aims for the masses, seems like a VC-indebted journey from the start
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