What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Anyone taking bets on how long his new social media platform will last?

Gonna guess 6 months.

1 month before the first hack.

24 hours to the first hack. They've given warning as to when it'll launch.

Lasts about 6 weeks. Then, like a miracle, it'll be gone.

And it'll be gone before there's a published Durham Report.

Hard to say. Social Media RELIES on advertising/data-mining. and the broader the pool, the more valuable it is to their customers (Remember the adage: If you get a product for free, YOU are the product. This is especially true for Social Media).

I know they have a paid platform too but I believe their social media platform is standard Twitter-clone and Freeeeeee!!!!!! (With an eagle in there somewhere).

So Social Media relies on how valuable the data-mined information is. The broader the demographic, the more valuable it is. By its very nature, this is going to have quite a narrow demographic. Even if a HUGE amount of people sign up for it it will be a narrow field. Business is business, if a company thinks it can use the info, it will buy it. And this is well and good. But if it's already telling them what they already know, then why buy the info.

If they rely on advertising, many companies may be deterred. May wish to avoid the association. Again, in general, business decision. Companies could give a flying f*ck about politics unless it impacts sales.

So it's hard to say, they may get 100 million in the first month!!! Some companies WILL pay for this info and advertise if they are: Typically aiming for an older and obviously more conservative demographic,

I don't agree with hacking the site. This leads to a tit-for-tat situation. The site touts that there will be no censorship (But also, somehow, close content inspection) so there is a more than fair chance that this will descend into another site dedicated to conspiracy theories and hate groups. You can bet it will be monitored closely by intelligence communities, As is every other Social Media platform. But the company will claim that they are being overly scrutinised. I would prefer that their own descent into hate speech would cause the site to fail than any outside wannabe hacker script kiddies DDOSing it.

I think I saw somewhere there will also be an optional subscription with additional features. Because even if the money they got from advertisers was more than enough to sustain the site, Trump's always going to stick his hand out for more money anyway.

I don't think advertisers will be thinking 10-15 years ahead. they will have a ripe audience now that they will exploit for as long as they can. Which will probably be months at best.

Let's not forget that mastodon (the underlying platform) only has an IOS app so if you are an android user there is no app for you.

That is a VERY valid concern. These platforms need a LARGE serverbase and have large and continuous costs. They can often take years to make a profit as initial investment (If done right) is large.

This is the most likely impact initially. I'd say it is very likely they will crash their own servers (Which they will blame on "hackers" of course). Pretty much guaranteed to meltdown within first day and again within first week. Even without any "attack".

And if/when it does descend into a hate-speech site it risks being deplatformed from the major services such as AWS (Amazon) or Azure (Microsoft) or GCP (Google) - if they are on them currently.

If they are hosting themselves, they are looking at tens of millions of dollars a year to really be "enterprise" level. And I can't see their costs being much different if they went to a cloud solution such as AWS/Azure. While initial investment may be less, their DDoS remediation costs could soon eat up that saving. And a smaller cloud/DDoS protection solution may simply refuse to host them due to the impact on their other customers.

TLDR: As said others have said above, if they cheap out, they will crash and burn even without "libtard hackers"

Oh God.....

That site...."American Ideals. American Internet" And their client list.... There is so much God-damn FREEDOME there!!!

I would be very surprised if their host of fox "news" was anything more than some minor services. The Murdoch empire would certainly be big enough and international enough to host their own robust platform.

I don't think they are claiming that Fox hosts with them more the fact that they have been featured on those channels.

There is nothing about pricing etc compared to someone like hivelocity where you can clearly see the options and spin up a machine in minutes. I don't think it would be possible with this crowd (I may be wrong)

You are 100% correct. Can't believe I misread that (Especially as Reuters was mentioned).

Oh they are going to get HAMMERED. By legitimate traffic hopefully. As I said, I'd rather it fail due to their own hate/mismanagement than external influence so they have nobody to blame but themselves (Not that it would stop them blaming MSM/"Libtards"/"Woke" something or other.

Love the shade the US Embassy threw by posting photos of recent presidents to celebrate president’s day EXCEPT 45 😁

Didn't Trump boycott Apple products over them not handing over the keys to their encryption a few years back? Looks like Trump and Tim Apple will be friends again.

Didn't Devon Nunes sue a cow on Twitter for making fun of him? I'm sure there'll be freedumb alright as long as you don't say anything mean about fragile Donnie & his snowflake buddies.