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I share your sentiment to a certain extent, but I believe Twitter is a necessary evil. There should be an alternative to main stream media for people.

by 0xFFFE 7y ago

rvz 7y ago
I found Gab [0] to be quite a viable alternative to Twitter due to its decentralised nature thanks to Mastodon so that downtimes like this cannot happen on the platform. [0] - https://gab.ai https://gab.ai
- barneygumble742 7y ago
  Is this the neo-nazi Twitter alternative?
  - qwsxyh 7y ago
    Yes
  - kgraves 7y ago
    As much of my disgust of these people, I can find you literal Nazi's that are still on Twitter.
- kgraves 7y ago
  > ...quite a viable alternative to Twitter due to its decentralised thanks to Mastodon. Gab isn't what everyone makes it out to be, they were told to build their own alternative and built it. It's even better that it's using Mastodon's stack to build their own decentralised social network. Gab, Mastodon and others like it are future of social networks. Centralisation is evil.
- hlieberman 7y ago
  Impressive; it's been quite a while since a comment made me roll my eyes so hard I got a headache.
- kyledrake 7y ago
  I would take an extremely centralized Twitter to a vaguely federated neo-nazi platform a billion times over.
squarefoot 7y ago
Sadly, for most people Twitter is mainstream media.
- organsnyder 7y ago
  To be fair, many (most?) mainstream journalists are extremely active on Twitter.
  - kgraves 7y ago
    In my opinion that is very unfortunate.
- roywiggins 7y ago
  Twitter is not that popular. The problem is that mainstream journalists spend too much time on it and confuse it for the real world. How many "news" stories are just repackaged tweets? A lot.
  - ionforce 7y ago
    What is the definition of "mainstream"?
  - iamnothere 7y ago
    > Twitter is not that popular. https://www.similarweb.com/website/twitter.com https://www.similarweb.com/website/twitter.com Global Rank: 6 Country Rank: 9 Visits: 3.93B https://www.similarweb.com/website/cnn.com https://www.similarweb.com/website/cnn.com Global Rank: 101 Country Rank: 29 Visits: 476.20M https://www.similarweb.com/website/nytimes.com https://www.similarweb.com/website/nytimes.com Global Rank: 180 Country rank: 58 Visits: 278.41M
azernik 7y ago
It's not so much an alternative to mainstream media as an informal gathering place for workers in the mainstream media
- busterarm 7y ago
  It became the formal gathering place once Twitter bent the knee and started handing out blue checkmarks like candy to every low-level media personality basically on-demand. At some media companies, getting you your blue checkmark is part of the HR on-boarding process, ffs. Journalists are clearly the heaviest, most important Twitter users at this point.
eqdw 7y ago
That alternative existed before Twitter, and will continue to exist after Twitter
papito 7y ago
I follow mostly "main stream media" on Twitter. It should be an aggregator of professional news, not "alternative" facts.
- SllX 7y ago
  Twitter is where the professionalism in the mainstream media goes to die. Between headlines you’re likely either getting insider baseball, a circlejerk or a crowbar in the face with “mainstream” written on the side in sharpie. If all you have are the headlines, then you’ve chosen Twitter to be your alternative “RSS” client. A valid choice for most and not one I would criticize either, but not entirely what it is or “should” be.

I share your sentiment to a certain extent, but I believe Twitter is a necessary evil. There should be an alternative to main stream media for people.

by 0xFFFE 7y ago

I share your sentiment to a certain extent, but I believe Twitter is a necessary evil. There should be an alternative to main stream media for people.

rvz 7y ago

I found Gab [0] to be quite a viable alternative to Twitter due to its decentralised nature thanks to Mastodon so that downtimes like this cannot happen on the platform. [0] - https://gab.ai https://gab.ai

barneygumble742 7y ago
Is this the neo-nazi Twitter alternative?
- qwsxyh 7y ago
  Yes
- kgraves 7y ago
  As much of my disgust of these people, I can find you literal Nazi's that are still on Twitter.
kgraves 7y ago
> ...quite a viable alternative to Twitter due to its decentralised thanks to Mastodon. Gab isn't what everyone makes it out to be, they were told to build their own alternative and built it. It's even better that it's using Mastodon's stack to build their own decentralised social network. Gab, Mastodon and others like it are future of social networks. Centralisation is evil.
hlieberman 7y ago
Impressive; it's been quite a while since a comment made me roll my eyes so hard I got a headache.
kyledrake 7y ago
I would take an extremely centralized Twitter to a vaguely federated neo-nazi platform a billion times over.

squarefoot 7y ago

Sadly, for most people Twitter is mainstream media.

organsnyder 7y ago
To be fair, many (most?) mainstream journalists are extremely active on Twitter.
- kgraves 7y ago
  In my opinion that is very unfortunate.
roywiggins 7y ago
Twitter is not that popular. The problem is that mainstream journalists spend too much time on it and confuse it for the real world. How many "news" stories are just repackaged tweets? A lot.
- ionforce 7y ago
  What is the definition of "mainstream"?
- iamnothere 7y ago
  > Twitter is not that popular. https://www.similarweb.com/website/twitter.com https://www.similarweb.com/website/twitter.com Global Rank: 6 Country Rank: 9 Visits: 3.93B https://www.similarweb.com/website/cnn.com https://www.similarweb.com/website/cnn.com Global Rank: 101 Country Rank: 29 Visits: 476.20M https://www.similarweb.com/website/nytimes.com https://www.similarweb.com/website/nytimes.com Global Rank: 180 Country rank: 58 Visits: 278.41M

azernik 7y ago

It's not so much an alternative to mainstream media as an informal gathering place for workers in the mainstream media

busterarm 7y ago
It became the formal gathering place once Twitter bent the knee and started handing out blue checkmarks like candy to every low-level media personality basically on-demand. At some media companies, getting you your blue checkmark is part of the HR on-boarding process, ffs. Journalists are clearly the heaviest, most important Twitter users at this point.

eqdw 7y ago

That alternative existed before Twitter, and will continue to exist after Twitter

papito 7y ago

I follow mostly "main stream media" on Twitter. It should be an aggregator of professional news, not "alternative" facts.

SllX 7y ago
Twitter is where the professionalism in the mainstream media goes to die. Between headlines you’re likely either getting insider baseball, a circlejerk or a crowbar in the face with “mainstream” written on the side in sharpie. If all you have are the headlines, then you’ve chosen Twitter to be your alternative “RSS” client. A valid choice for most and not one I would criticize either, but not entirely what it is or “should” be.