[bdcravens]

Trump had enough star power to get some 75 million people to vote for him, and Truth Social has been a flop.

[jcadam]

Truth Social appears to be stillborn mostly due to technical incompetence. Otherwise, it might have been at least somewhat successful in crowding out the gabs, gettrs, etc.

I believe Musk would hire the proper talent and wouldn't screw up a launch this badly.

[bdcravens]

Perhaps but you're talking a year or more of building. Also, while there are plenty of Muskboys on HN, I don't think he has the star power that guarantees success, so it'd have to be something more than just "Twitter without moderation", resulting in a pretty long lead time to alpha v1.

More likely he would just buy a different platform, since many of his companies he hasn't created from the ground up.

[upsidesinclude]

This should be sufficient evidence that the rhetoric about legions of vitriolic, idiotic "Trumpers" is just progressive propaganda...

[bdcravens]

Could also mean that group isn't one you can build a successful product around, even if they do exist.