App.net and Hacker News: A love story

2 pointsby tomasien14 lat temu2 comments

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on why people on HN will read and upvote literally (as far as I can tell) any story about app.net.

Is it A. People really do yearn for people to pay for their software B. People love a good story, and since nothing has REALLY happened with app.net (besides getting crowd-funded) people want to add to the currently compelling narrative or C. Something else

Thoughts?

1 comments

wingfield14 lat temu

Developers are displeased with Twitter (especially after yesterday) and happy to have an alternative that's off to a good start. Competition is good.

tomasien14 lat temu

Agreed, but have you seen HN lately? It's 100% app.net stuff! I agree it's got huge upside, but to be the only thing people want to talk about? Slow news day maybe?