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JDGumby t1_iuoia7e wrote

What other sorta-real-time, mobile micro-blogging platforms are there to move to that have enough people to make switching away from Twitter even vaguely realistic?

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bicyclesausage22 t1_iurddpo wrote

Opting out of the “sorta-real-time microblogging” market is also an option. It’s the best option I’ve found.

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WexfordHo t1_iuom7xj wrote

Mastodon, Discord, or any startup that’s positioned to move right now and occupy the impending vacuum.

Basically it’s time for someone to do to Twitter what Reddit did to Digg.

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StuffyGoose t1_iup19cx wrote

Mastodon? Amateur techies running home-based servers are not going to replace Twitter.

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WexfordHo t1_iupblox wrote

Something is going to replace Twitter.

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JDGumby t1_iur1x6w wrote

Won't be Mastodon, though. Not when people realize that it is, by design, already in the same mess Twitter soon will be with unaccountable individuals (rather than boards or committees, who at least have to compromise with each other) making the rules about what you can send and see on a node-by-node basis (like subreddits with a single mod, but worse since the person who runs the node doesn't have any network-wide content rules they have to obey).

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