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LordoftheMorons posted...

I havent looked into any of these Twitter alternatives personally since Im lazy and none of them seemed to hit critical mass, but are any of them just basically a copy of Twitter but without a massive tool running things? Because that seems like kind of the obvious thing to do!

I think the bouzy one is most regular-twitter-like of the lot... so it depends on your limit of the massive tool descriptor, but hey it's not Musk or the guy who described Musk as the chosen one to fix Twitter. Spoutible is an undeniably shit name though, have absolutely no idea how it's fairing personally since I never checked.

Cohost was never intended to be a Twitter, it's getting described more as a micro-blogger but honestly it is the one that I actually vibe with pretty well. Full-length posts, lots of embeds and formatting, and at least from my perspective just a very gay community (non-derogatory), albeit sparse and I don't see comments. No app though.

Hive was one that blew up pretty famously, possibly just as much as Bluesky is now.... but then it quite literally did blow up for like a week or two and that shattered momentum entirely. It was very Twitter-like though, although still reliant on hashtags rather than text search but it pushed a decent Discovery tab to support it. It was pulling pretty big names... but that was before it quickly exploded. I actually hung around it a long ass while to give it a chance but it was pretty clearly abandoned and I couldn't even cut the devs any slack as they clearly weren't prepared for the task of a large-scale social network - literally months pushing out updates to fix blocking that kept not actually fixing it.

Mastodon & Bluesky are fediverse. Mastodon was complained about for being complicated but it did nevertheless pick up joiners, probably as the leading alternative after everything else failed, and it was picking up big names with it. Still though the perception of complexity has remained a barrier, I've never bothered yet myself so I can't say more than that, it's technically not one network on its own but a conglomeration of many networks that can interact and that's probably not the best description but that's all I can give you. Bluesky though is actually intended to do the same, it's making big waves right now as a singular instance but the plan is for there to be countless servers with their own rulesets basically the same as Mastodon.

what else..... oh right Post for news-types... it seemed very stale and payment oriented as a platform again centering journalists hoping to open an avenue to get paid. not friendly to NSFW content so yeah it's very corporate and I don't think it caught on as an actual social platform

that's all i can think of this moment