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Well app.net[0] had great potential and got shutdown. From Wikipedia:

> On May 6, 2014, the founders announced that subscription renewals had been so poor that there were no longer funds to retain development staff for App.net and future operations would be on a maintenance-only basis using contractors

I used to love that platform in its heyday. You didn't have to pay with your data, you paid with a thing called, you know, money (an esoteric term in social media circles).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net