All of this is the illusion of competition. There are viable and meaningful competitors, but they don't stand a chance. It's a monopoly of sorts, and there's no beating it... so we go back into the sewer constantly. However, news and journalists just fully broke, in my mind.... and that's a death knell.
Twitter's new move to have inline links as images without headlines just broke twitter, and it's the final nail. I'll be on Bluesky, because at least that algorithm looks like there's interaction. Also there's pretty solid tools to find twitter users on mastodon and bluesky from your feed.
Thanks, Russ. So many different platforms vying to replace Twitter makes it difficult for any of them to get enough engagement to be truly useful. Threads is a definite NO for me because we've already seen Meta misuse their massive influence over the public discourse (same with BlueSky). I don't have the bandwidth to sort out Mastodon. Post is emerging as at least having the potential to be a reliable place to go for news. I am hoping Spoutible gets more support from thought leaders to bring more people there. I like that Spoutible users are given input into policies and function choices, and the anti-harassment safeguards are important. I hope that eventually people will chose to lead their followers there.
"Plus, the new sites are getting to be just echo chambers."
Amen! I have poked around in Post, Spoutible, and Toad--and that's all they are:
Echo Chambers.
The big problems are:
1. Too fractured; not everyone is in one place.
2. No "quote" re-posts visible to permit messaging third parties.
All of this is the illusion of competition. There are viable and meaningful competitors, but they don't stand a chance. It's a monopoly of sorts, and there's no beating it... so we go back into the sewer constantly. However, news and journalists just fully broke, in my mind.... and that's a death knell.
Twitter's new move to have inline links as images without headlines just broke twitter, and it's the final nail. I'll be on Bluesky, because at least that algorithm looks like there's interaction. Also there's pretty solid tools to find twitter users on mastodon and bluesky from your feed.
Sky Follower Bridge is simple, works well, but will take you a bit: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sky-follower-bridge/behhbpbpmailcnfbjagknjngnfdojpko
And a website that finds your twitter audience on mastodon: https://www.movetodon.org/
Thanks, Russ. So many different platforms vying to replace Twitter makes it difficult for any of them to get enough engagement to be truly useful. Threads is a definite NO for me because we've already seen Meta misuse their massive influence over the public discourse (same with BlueSky). I don't have the bandwidth to sort out Mastodon. Post is emerging as at least having the potential to be a reliable place to go for news. I am hoping Spoutible gets more support from thought leaders to bring more people there. I like that Spoutible users are given input into policies and function choices, and the anti-harassment safeguards are important. I hope that eventually people will chose to lead their followers there.
I went to Tribel and highly recommend it. It has a long way to go, but has beautiful bones.