My issue with Twitter is people need to learn how to take things into their own hands - even if it means at their own expense. Realistically, this is impractica

My issue with Twitter is people need to learn how to take things into their own hands - even if it means at their own expense. Realistically, this is impractical for most people, especially the technically illiterate or those too poor to pay for hosting (even if it is only for personal use, instead of being open to a public) Twitter will never realistically be a utility. But there can be an open and distributed replacement for it that will meet the same goals, with fewer corporate restrictions and a more fractured government intervention. GNUSocial is a great replacement for Twitter. With multiple hosts, your data is yours, you can move data between hosts and you can even choose to host it for yourself to control your own data. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_social https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_social