Show HN: Vers – Social Media as It Should Be
I had a feeling this had been discussed on HN a few times before.  And I think it&#x27;s pretty obvious why anyone with a social network to plug is trying to ride in on the Twitter&#x2F;Elon publicity bandwaggon, this week.<p>I looked at the longest discussion [0] from just over a year ago and the first post I saw was this, from ColinWright:<p>----<p><i>I came here to say the same thing as square_usual[0] said elsewhere[1], but I&#x27;ll expand on that a bit.</i><p><i>My immediate thought was ... Hmm, I wonder what this is? Is it like Twitter? Is it like Facebook? Is it like Mastodon? Is it like Instagram? TikTok? QQ? Pinterest? Reddit? Hacker News? How is it different? How is it new?</i><p><i>Then the first thing I saw was a paragraph of text and a sign-in form.</i><p><i>You are competing for people&#x27;s attention, and while your platform may be wonderful, if you don&#x27;t get people to try it, it will die unloved. The first thing you&#x27;ve done is given them a barrier, not a taster.</i><p>----<p>I&#x27;ve just revisited the site today and nothing has changed. You can&#x27;t see <i>anything</i> of the content unless you sign up for an account.  Any site that&#x27;s supposed to be a &#x27;community&#x27; that won&#x27;t even let me peep behind the curtain without creating an account, I just assume it&#x27;s a ghost town and they&#x27;re trying to trick people into creating accounts, just to artificially inflate the user figures.<p>Pity you didn&#x27;t take ColinWright&#x27;s advice on board a year ago. I see that every subequent discussion of vers.social on here has attracted no interest whatsoever. Maybe that ahould also tell you something.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28927767" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28927767</a>