Recommendation Twitter Alternatives
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hitmouse
Did do all Google car mistakes
Huh, I never knew before that the Jack from twitter was actually Jack Whitehall.
Ah, I've heard a great deal about the miseries and dramas of knitting instagram, but sewing instagram is still entirely mysterious to me.Sewing Instagram was gutted to discover that Threads isn't a new sewing app
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
I’m wondering what to do. I signed up for Mastodon…didn’t visit much and now it doesn’t work..it wants to know the URL of the server I signed up on…like I remember that? My friendly local newspaper correspondent seems to be signing up to all sorts of things..bluesky, threads etc. the think that worries me about threads is it will end up accumulating a lot of data and suddenly be as shit as Facebook is, and Instagram is becoming. My Instagram is just really pretty pictures, nothing personal. I really don’t want to link a Twitter alternative to that. Maybe I need a new insta account..but I assume they will still track you unless you faff about with VPNs.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
this is what happened to me
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
After some rigorous testing I can reveal exclusively on Urban 75 that:
1. The best way to get good engagement on Mastodon is to say that posting there is way cooler and right-on that being on Twitter/Threads and that Mastodon people are your kind of people.
2. The best way to get good engagement on Threads is to be an enormous brand with millions of followers on Instagram. Or to post some vapid nonsense about how you will become rich if you try hard enough.
1. The best way to get good engagement on Mastodon is to say that posting there is way cooler and right-on that being on Twitter/Threads and that Mastodon people are your kind of people.
2. The best way to get good engagement on Threads is to be an enormous brand with millions of followers on Instagram. Or to post some vapid nonsense about how you will become rich if you try hard enough.
Throbbing Angel
uncivilly servile
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Difficult to see how without a big pile of cash to burn (like threads) or a dedicated community (like mastodon) it will be able to compete. Part of the reason for that is the technical aspects of microblogging platforms are only the first thing to solve. The moderation is what needs lots of human hours to make it work. So you either pay hundreds of people to moderate or you need hundreds/thousands of volunteers, which mastodon gets (not always well) through its decentralisation and non-profit ethos.
Orang Utan
Acceptable through usage
Is Instagram broken? Haven’t been able to see anything for two days now
Throbbing Angel
uncivilly servile
Fine on my laptop
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
My better half had to delete the app and reinstall it today cos the same thing happened. fine for me though.
Throbbing Angel
uncivilly servile
Spoutible anyone? Algorithm free, apparently.
Spoutible
Introducing Spoutible - a social media app with a vision for an inclusive, enjoyable, and secure online environment. We've turned the page on conventional social media platforms, proving that safety doesn't require sterility. Here, you can express yourself freely in a space consciously built to...
apps.apple.com
hitmouse
Did do all Google car mistakes
Spoutible anyone? Algorithm free, apparently.
Spoutible
Introducing Spoutible - a social media app with a vision for an inclusive, enjoyable, and secure online environment. We've turned the page on conventional social media platforms, proving that safety doesn't require sterility. Here, you can express yourself freely in a space consciously built to...apps.apple.com
I notice that they fail to list the essential category "people I like and want to hear from are using it" there.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
hmm
some people are decamping to bluesky, although that seems to involve either getting invited, or going on a waiting list of unspecified length.
on the mastodon instance i went to there's about 2 people i know who are still bothering with it.
meh.
lazythursday
Well-Known Member
Apparently big improvements to Threads are coming soon. I think that still has a good chance of being successful but it needed those basic features at launch and if they don't appear soon the momentum will be gone.
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
Yes please.
Yossarian
⏭️
PM sent - bluesky only hands out one code at a time but will post here again when I get another in a week or two
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
Got an account now, many thanks!
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Any more invites going? ta 
Yossarian
⏭️
Any more invites going? ta
If you still need one when I get another in 2 weeks it's all yours
krtek a houby
Satin is my master
Have been off twitter for several months not and genuinely feeling better for it.
That said, do miss various updates from all kinds of music, natural world, history, peoples, activism, space, film and friends.
Cutting down on FB is a bit harder but am getting there.
That said, do miss various updates from all kinds of music, natural world, history, peoples, activism, space, film and friends.
Cutting down on FB is a bit harder but am getting there.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Is it any good? I don’t know much about it…
Yossarian
⏭️
I like it more than Twitter so far, seems to have a lot of good posters who no longer use the Musk site. Seems to be a lot of furries on there, going by the 'Discover' tab, but I guess that's better than Nazis
lazythursday
Well-Known Member
Threads is gradually improving - there's now a chronological 'following' feed as well as the algorithmic one. You have to press the logo at the top to see it though, it's not obvious at all.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
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mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
Anybody after a Bluesky invite still, skyscraper101 ?
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