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Looks like Twitter will get sold off at a huge loss in a couple years. Is there anything like old twitter out there? Twitter with an open API during the Arab S
by karmicthreat 4y ago
Looks like Twitter will get sold off at a huge loss in a couple years.
Is there anything like old twitter out there? Twitter with an open API during the Arab Spring was kind of an amazing time. I guess really it's all about TikTok at this point for that sort of thing.
- bogwog 4y agoHow about Mastodon/Pleroma?
- Waterluvian 4y agoNot that they can't become an option, but they fail my sniff test: zero of my non-technical friends in a group chat have ever heard of either of those.
- danaris 4y agoUnfortunately, in an ecosystem dominated by absolutely massive monopoly players, that's just going to be the case for nearly everything. What's the alternative to Facebook? ....uhhhh, I dunno, is MySpace still around? What's the alternative to Instagram? ....maybe TikTok? but that's just for videos What's the alternative to TikTok? ....YouTube, I guess? And round and round it goes. Yes; most people will only have heard of the big behemoth players in the social media field. Triply so for non-technical people. What that means is we who are technical need to start exploring alternatives and spreading the word about them. Not that we just need to shrug and accept that we will be playing in monopolists' sandboxes for the rest of our lives.
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoNope. I thought, let me try out Mastodon. I pull it up and try to create an account. The "official" instance isn't taking any new accounts. What? Okay, now what? Oh, I have to find an instance that is. Let me see. Good grief, look at that list. Okay, pick one at random. Nope not taking new accounts. Again. Again. Okay, found one. But they don't federate. Looks up federate. Wait, so it doesn't talk to the official instance. Okay, fuck this.