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Have you tried Mastodon? It can be literally described as a "casual" and "slower" Twitter.

• jruohonen 3y ago
  The problem with Mastodon viz Twitter is that all the important people, including politicians in particular, are still in the latter, often in order to attack each other on daily basis. I bet some of them actually love the polarizing algorithm as it only benefits them.
  • rapnie 3y ago
    That is not a problem, but a feature as I see it. If "more casual" and "slower" doesn't fit these people, let them have their fighting arena at Twitter.
  • hnbad 3y ago
    If you want the day-to-day opinions of politicians and other "important people", I suspect you don't want something calmer and slower than Twitter, you just want a better block list.
• rapnie 3y ago
  And its very slow growth over many years to 'just' a couple of million users (which growth hacking megaplatform enthusiasts have been deriding it for) contributes to this more healthy culture, imho. Yes, all the usual social dynamics exist that are also present in any other platform. But handled differently, better maybe.
  • hnbad 3y ago
    It's funny. The most "Twitter-esque" replies I see on Mastodon come from mastodon.social, which thanks to now being the "default server" in several apps seems to be facing somewhat of an Eternal September. There tends to be some drama around different attitudes to moderation on other servers but other than that they're usually fairly well-behaved and predictable by comparison. Twitter on the other hand seems to have opened some kind of hell portal giving 4chan a run for its money.