[ipsum2]

What's the point of posting this? You may not be their target demographic. No one's forcing you to use it.

If I see a post about a new Lisp dialect (something I have no interest in), commenting "That will be a hard no from me thanks." is a waste of time and space.

[bilekas]

I'm curious to hear why people would be enticed by this app when it seems to be nothing more than recycled mastodon by one of the least privacy centric companies in the world.

[cheeze]

An opinon on what the OP of the comment thinks about it?

That's the joy of HN. You get the folks who are bullish on a 'new' idea, and those who aren't.

[ipsum2]

There's no explanation about why the OP thinks the way he does. If there was some interesting commentary or question, that would be worth reading about.

[s_dev]

Have you considered the same argument about your own post? Comments pointing out useless comments are just as useless as the useless comments themselves. Hence the voting system which isn't being engaged with -- which promotes or demotes the exposure a comments gets -- perhaps you might agree the right answer is to downvote and move on?

[bilekas]

> If I see a post about a new Lisp dialect (something I have no interest in)

But I am interested in social media apps, its hard not to be these days. I just don't see the point from Meta's point of view, apart from more data collection maybe, and I don't see the point from the users point when Mastodon and Twitter are doing this, with arguably more respect for their users than Meta.

[threeseed]

Twitter is valued at ~$10b and still generating ad revenue.

There is demand for a Twitter clone that is closer to what it was before Musk joined.

Therefore as a pure business opportunity it makes a lot of sense.