Ask HN: What are you using after Twitter?

I stopped using Facebook years ago, and cut out Twitter more recently. Mostly I just try to spend entire days offline. (You'd be surprised what an odd experience it is to read a newspaper, cover to cover, where you have no say over what news stories you read, and there's a conscious mix of different topics.)

I did try Threads, and I liked it. People were consciously trying not to talk about politics for a while, so they were sharing pictures of their cat or talking about movies. It was like a kinder, gentler social media site. When they get a few more features, Threads could really turn into something.

I’m on Mastodon now and have used the opportunity to switch to having two accounts, on separate instances. Once for everything local, climate change or politics, and one just for nerdy stuff, to disconnect from the real world.

Very happy. Discoverability on Mastodon isn’t as good and there are much fewer people but I’ve found a nice little community and that’s all I want.

Easy, I'm using x

Seriously talking , the enshittification of internet is so bad. I never used used Twitter but visited once in a while, the blue priority renders the platform quasi useless besides the main content (original tweets)

I left reddit for HN but I guess that isn't that helpful

By numbers a third of my network (including me) moved to Mastodon, by engagement it's two thirds. Elk frontend on desktop, Ivory app on mobile.

Nothing. Quit Twitter in 2016, and haven't looked back or at any alternatives. I wasn't getting anything out of social media and, even after looking at alternatives, I was just put off by the sameness of it all.

Mastodon. Rolled my own instance to see how it goes for a while and I've been happy with it. https://self.social

I'm using X now

Nothing.

I have deleted Twitter a long time ago after trying it years before the acquisition and tried many others and deleted my account(s) on the other alternatives.

Replacing or migrating from one social network to another isn't the solution to social media addiction which many users here are craving for. It just prolongs the addiction and one doesn't stop and quit their alcohol addiction by drinking a different brand of alcohol.

So the only solution is to completely delete your account(s) and these apps. Seems like these folks have never been more happier after deleting their accounts. [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-40654983