This is my position too. What I'm looking for in a twitter alternative is something public that I can post to the entire world, and search. If I want to post to

This is my position too. What I'm looking for in a twitter alternative is something public that I can post to the entire world, and search. If I want to post to my friends I already use Signal and vastly prefer that to something like Mastodon. The add the extra complexity of follower only things and instances and I just don't understand who this service is aim at other than the people who created it. Hence, to me, it is and will always be some niche thing (that isn't terribly interesting to me). All that said I still read these threads because there needs to be a good twitter alternative.