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Alternatives exist. Look at the fediverse.
by h_anna_h 6y ago
Alternatives exist. Look at the fediverse.
- serf 6y agoan alternative to twitter or facebook would have a comparable audience volume. there are plenty of alternatives functionally -- but no alternatives realistically.
- opan 6y agoYou interact with a limited # of people. I don't think it matters if there are 100 million or 1 million (or fewer). You can follow people, monitor your feed, chat with friends. There are enough people on the fediverse that it doesn't feel like you're missing much from twitter besides corporate accounts.
- rhn_mk1 6y ago> it doesn't feel like you're missing much from twitter besides corporate accounts. Having watched Twitter from some distance, isn't that half the reason it's so popular?
- thereare5lights 6y agoYou're forgetting about viral tweets
- Daho0n 6y agoWould you add X strangers if your family wasn't on the platform you use?
- rapnie 6y agoSo promoting functional alternatives is the way to go if we ever want to get realistic alternatives.
- riffic 6y agoserious "head in the sand" vibes from anyone who says that there aren't any alternatives.
- rvanlaar 6y agoNot when Apple and Google are in cahoots and both ban your new app.
- h_anna_h 6y agoThere are fediverse apps on both stores.
- syshum 6y agofediverse also caved to pressure from Big Tech to put in place a system of censorship
- h_anna_h 6y agoThe fediverse is not a single entity. I am not aware of any such system.
- eznzt 6y agoThere are fediverse apps on both stores because 99% of fediverse instances have a left-wing moderation policy.
- wizzwizz4 6y agoWhat do you mean by a “left-wing moderation policy”? The naïve interpretation gets nowhere near 99%. You can get up to 95% if you interpret that as “a moderation policy where spamming slurs at other users isn't looked on kindly” – but if “basic decency” is your definition of “left-wing”, then what's up with your “right-wing”‽