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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Nov 2020

      Paul Graham Retweeted delian

      If you want to start something that competes with Twitter (and I'm sure there are ways to do it), you don't have to worry about Twitter's response.https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1327366463745712128 …

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      delian @zebulgar
      still thinking about how it took twitter a decade to implement search in DMs
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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Nov 2020

      Incidentally, the way to create a Twitter competitor is not to launch a head-on attack with a Twitter clone. It's to make something slightly different (ideally because it fixes Twitter's flaws) and that people only later realize has replaced Twitter for them.

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        1. The Dopamine Devil and 629 others‏ @KevinMonk 14 Nov 2020
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          Competition is for losers

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        1. James is in the year 2030, it's nice‏ @JimmyRis 14 Nov 2020
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          Like slightly different moderation policies?

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        2. Ida Trousers‏ @IdaTrousers 14 Nov 2020
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          If you were banned, then it is fixing a twitter flaw for you. It’s interesting how once the number of people exiled reaches a critical mass there is an opportunity to build a counter community.Parler is like how voat is to Reddit, and voat today is distillation of hate and racism

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        1. Shane‏ @SaturniusMons 14 Nov 2020
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          Familiar enough that people know what they're getting, different enough that people want to change?

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        1. @novicus‏ @novicus 14 Nov 2020
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          (How did my response to this disappear? Here it is again) - History does not always repeat itself, Paul, despite the ostensible aphorism

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        1. Alex Carter  🤷‍♂️‏ @AlexCartaz 14 Nov 2020
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          But the lifeblood of twitter is that it already holds quorum for where the most interesting ppl are active and accessible online. Even if reg user adoption is lagging, this is the hardest demo to court I wouldn’t want to make a T competitor and I have a long list of its flaws

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