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Do you think there's any realistic alternative to Twitter as the world's "town square"? Elon, and possibly Trump before him, are the only people who actually r
by onion2k 4y ago
Do you think there's any realistic alternative to Twitter as the world's "town square"?
Elon, and possibly Trump before him, are the only people who actually reached the world on Twitter. For vast majority of people Twitter is a small, local (not necessarily geographically; it can be local to a belief, or an interest) platform, and they never break out of their small bit no matter how hard they try.
There isn't an alternative to Twitter in the sense of another platform that replicates everything Twitter does, but for any individual there are loads of ways of replicating the functionality of Twitter that you use.
When someone says they're leaving for an alternative they mean the second one.