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Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down


Mastodon and Bluesky are still standing.

“We built a toxicity-free community, a platform where Publishers engage, and an app that validated many theories around Micropayments and consumers’ willingness to purchase individual articles,” Bardin writes. Post News isn’t the only Twitter alternative that struggled to find an audience, as another potential rival, Pebble, shut down in November 2023. The decentralized platforms Mastodon and Bluesky are still going strong, while Meta’s Threads launched its fediverse beta in March and added Taylor Swift to its user base.

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Post News, the a16z-funded Twitter alternative, is shutting down