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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf You Want to Leave Twitter Because of Elon Musk, These Are Your Options
From Motherboard
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbqjd/if-you-want-to-leave-twitter-because-of-elon-musk-these-are-your-options
real short:
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dchill
(38,677 posts)progree
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TheBlackAdder
(28,295 posts)HariSeldon
(463 posts)An open source solution, but you either have to host a server or pay someone to do it for you.
Link: https://diasporafoundation.org/
PortTack
(32,861 posts)Read earlier the site is being flooded with an influx of new accounts .hummmmm
rpannier
(24,356 posts)Must be getting a lot of interest
OhioChick
(23,218 posts)IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,833 posts)to associate with myself based on things I posed in 2013.
Open minded people change and grow. It's what I do now that counts.
Skittles
(153,485 posts)these people make me sick
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,833 posts)RW propaganda and "evangelical" bullshit. At the time, I was still brainwashed enough to believe I was doing good.
Skittles
(153,485 posts)the tweets were up for years, then he runs from it, blocks those who call him out
he got caught
scipan
(2,371 posts)Link to tweet
?t=Ghnslp4YKp5svOykhVzyvw&s=19
Link to tweet
?t=xKJAoBN5dfZ9RUQKYnDm5g&s=19
Link to tweet
?t=3iZ64G3fHhVOmVTfJgIJkA&s=19
Skittles
(153,485 posts)Last edited Tue Apr 26, 2022, 06:50 PM - Edit history (1)
I love it when they say this isn't who I am when usually that is EXACTLY who they are.
from two years ago:
Link to tweet
/photo/2
dude is a racist piece of shit
scipan
(2,371 posts)Skittles
(153,485 posts)fuck him
WarGamer
(12,573 posts)It means he has no convictions or substance.
scipan
(2,371 posts)towards him.
Takket
(21,775 posts)rpannier
(24,356 posts)If enough liberals leave twitter it might be come worthless, as conservatives seem to only want to belong to social media sites used by liberals
orleans
(34,139 posts)not sure what that is exactly.
OhioChick
(23,218 posts)orleans
(34,139 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,953 posts)The article raises an important question: option for what?
Twitter created and perfected the short-format messaging platform. It created the brand category it created and dominates.
Sure, there are dozens of other websites created and marketed as better-than-Twitter. But its impossible to replace the Twitter brand that exists in peoples minds.
And one of those brand things is Twitter bans nutjobs like Trump and his ilk who manipulate the platform for personal, nefarious purposes. If Musk wants to kill Twitter, let him make Twitter users associate with the same trash that infects Facebook. It may kill Twitter for the enlightened set, but they will find some other and more state-of-the-art way to associate.
But it will unlikely be a Twitter clone.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Maraya1969
(22,547 posts)I don't feel like posting anything more on Twitter. Let the Must lovers have it.
C_U_L8R
(45,055 posts)Big opportunity here to grow.
Ilsa
(61,722 posts)I go because I clicked on a DU post. I can give it up, easily. I'll miss some of the people I follow.
scipan
(2,371 posts)The biggest irritation for me on Twitter is all the bots. If he improves it in that regard that's good. If TDG is allowed back on, it will probably change the character of the place since it changed markedly for the better when he was banned. If he wants verification of everyone that we are indeed regular people and not Russian trolls, maybe that's ok.
If it gets run over by RWNJs I will leave. But I have this belief that what I tweet and retweet makes a small bit of difference and has a tiny possiblity of changing someone's mind.