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Twitter is still a good and viable alternative but probably you need to invest a good amount of time and energy to curate your timeline and your following list.

Also need to invest time and energy on twitter search (https://twitter.com/explore) with know-how on search operators (https://github.com/igorbrigadir/twitter-advanced-search) to find the right topics and people you want to have a conversation with.

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I find that Twitter doesn’t scratch the itch that discussion boards do.

Having to invest time and energy in search is one reason and then also the threading and topic selection is all over the place. There’s no sense of community for me.

It also seems like a lifestyle choice where a large amount of time has to go into it. Whereas I used to be able to drop into slashdot or kuro5hin or plastic or netslaves or reddit and check in without having to be always on.

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