Unlike Mastodon, Hive Social, or other existing social networks being flooded with dissatisfied Twitter users, Post News emerged this November.

The platform is the latest Twitter alternative to emerge from the chaos that is Elon Musk. It has similar basic functions to Twitter: you make posts, you like and repost other people’s posts, you follow interesting accounts. Yet in its beta stage, it still lacks basic functions like DMs, a native app and accessibility features like adding alt text to images.

The target audience is journalist and reader. It is as a place to access “premium news content without subscriptions or ads.” News publishers and independent writers are encouraged to share their articles on Post News under a paywall. The idea is that this would allow users to pay for individual articles from a variety of news sources. It’s an alternative, or a supplement, to paying for individual subscriptions to specific news sources.

As of late November, Post News has about 335,000 users on its waitlist, with about 65,000 accounts have been activated. (Users are being let in slowly as to not overload the platform’s operations and moderation capabilities).

Post News’ goals are ambitious. Not only is the platform attempting to compete with a longtime social media mainstay, but its business model relies on digital news publishers opting in to its model of charging readers per article, rather than for a subscription. However it will be interesting to see what other alternative will arise from the downfall of Twitter.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/28/post-news-twitter-alternative-a16z/