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Ask HN: Gettr – The Twitter Killer?

9 points by lettergram ↗ HN
Hello!

I recently saw Joe Rogan, Bret Weinstein, Dr Robert Malone and others switch to https://gettr.com/

What are everyone's thoughts here?

IMO seems like network effects are building on that particular platform.

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[dead] taurusnoises
newsbinator
Would it be more acceptable if there were non-white non-males?
taurusnoises
Not sure. I'm only concerned with the behavior of white males. As one, it's the world I know, and I know it very well. You can smell Gettr's agenda a mile away. Ain't foolin no one. Well, some people, I guess.
clownworldclown
Is this satire?
taurusnoises
Nope. I decided long ago who I'd keep my eye on. My "kind." Their behavior is my concern.
lettergram
Was Twitter not the same, at least initially?
Blackstrat
And that comment sounds like the typical vacuous comments that led me to turn off all television news.
slater
To me, it sounds like the folks that always joked about people "needing safe spaces" were just projecting all along.
gaws
> Reads like code for a space catering to white males who think providing "safe spaces" for the alt-right has something to do with freedom of speech.

All they want is a place where they can call people the N-word without any recourse. That's all it comes down to.

Irongirl1
As an "N-word", I really appreciate it when people let their true colors show. It helps me to avoid them. I wish we had a ribbon for them...like we do for other specialized pursuits. That way I can avoid interacting with people who mean me harm. Otherwise I might blunder into them unknowingly. Forewarned and all that...
JackOfCrows
Isn't this the latest "Twitter but freeze peach" with Gab and Telegram and Trump's social network and etc.?
wy35
Yeah, there’s nothing special about this. “Cancel culture bad” isn’t a viable value proposition. At the end of the day it’s yet another ugly Twitter clone.
newsbinator
For a social network the most viable value proposition is "people you want to interact with are here" and secondarily "we won't delete their posts or ban them".

If Gettr gets that much right for some audience, they're already past the first Great Filter.

rvz
It is another social network which is no different to Twitter.

Seems to be doing well. Nothing wrong with having alternatives and competition.

mikewarot
Despite the huge capital flows, attention is the real currency of the internet. As corporations are forced to censorship to protect their bottom line, they cut themselves off from the attention that their customers (the advertisers) are buying.

If you've got something to say, it isn't hard to copypaste yourself and get that in front of both audiences. The way we used to have RSS might get inverted to a list of places to post things instead of reading them.

I'm signing up, unless they ask for $.

MerelyMortal
How can it "kill" Twitter if it requires you to tweet codes to claim "reserved" usernames?
gregjor
The internet gives near-infinite space for social media platforms and everything else. It’s not like Highlander “There can be only one.”
whoknew1122
Joe Rogan and two people I had to Google joined Gettr, a start-up founded by someone with no tech background.

This 'Ask HN' feels more 'Use Ask HN for buzz marketing' than an honest question.

Let me ask a question in response: other than being used by Joe Rogan and two people only really known on the alt-right, what makes you think Gettr is remotely close to a Twitter killer?

lettergram
Twitters tech isn’t interesting or particularly innovative today. The most popular rails app tutorial goes through the creation of a basic Twitter-like app, for instance.

It’s the network effects that’s interesting.

I asked because I was curious if anyone here knew of the tech or had any thoughts on that aspect.

“Gettr the Twitter killer” is actually their catch phrase for advertising. Hence the title.