Competitor as in what? What value add would a competitor have? What qualifies as a twitter competitor? There can be no straightforward competitor because it's n

Competitor as in what? What value add would a competitor have? What qualifies as a twitter competitor? There can be no straightforward competitor because it's not straightforward. Allowing opinions that were at one time censored, that's Gab. Allowing one particular individual that was banned on twitter that a lot of people want to know what he is saying, that's Truth Social. Of course those aren't really considerations anymore... Does it have to be a company that runs the server and builds the experience and the client? I doubt you'll find a decent one. There are, however, protocols, and if you think about it, twitter works better as a protocol than as an app. Independent communities that can block each other? Instead of one CEO, would you like to be at the mercy of many? Mastodon is what you want. Are you interested in a censorship resistant protocol where you don't really have anyone who can tell you what to do? Nostr. Do we want to mention bluesky? I'm personally partial to nostr, to me it's the only thing that isn't worse than twitter in some deal breaking way.