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What are X/twitter alternatives ? I left twitter after recent Musk pro Russian statements.

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Your options are:

West Coast Liberal → https://bsky.app/

Bundesrepublik KDE → https://joinmastodon.org/

"I bet Mark Zuckerberg won't get any weirder" → https://www.threads.net/

I appreciate the informal decision tree.

Hey now there are plenty of east coast liberals on Bluesky too

BlueSky. Less algorithmic boosting and it allows you to curate your feed.

It's VC funded - so it remains to be seen how it evolves

I've been happy on BlueSky so far. It seems to be picking up a good variety of people, including journalists, and some interests of mine like cycling.

I'm crossing my fingers but history seems to be against them. You have to pay the piper at some point.

Wdym with "curate your feed"? See only posts of people your follow? That's always been possible with Twitter.

You have control over what is suggested by the algo, and can make several different feeds - in addition to just a feed of your follows. Rather than whatever "For You" is doing on Twitter these days.

So exactly like twitter.

I don't believe Twitter has the ability to do multiple algorithmically driven feeds but its been a while since I used it. I think Twitter "lists" might be the closest thing to it but thats just different follows. My understanding was that "For You" has gone through a number of changes, most of them for the worst, in the last year or so. Bluesky also has some interesting personal moderation filters - for instance I can subscribe to published block lists, maintained by other users.

No; Twitter doesn't have a "bring your own algorithm" option. https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

Yup. There's the basic chronological feed. There's a Discover and Popular with Friends feed. But, you can create your own feeds and/or subscribe to feeds that other people have created. You can have feeds for a specific topic or subculture. They can be manually curated or algorithmically; the idea is that can you subscribe to your own recommendation algorithm. They can be as simple or as complex as you'd like. Plus, you typically know who created a feed. Let's say you want to hear about AI news. There could be a curated AI, assuming someone cares about to garden it.

>There's the basic chronological feed

twitter has that

>There's a Discover

twitter has that

>you can create your own feeds and/or subscribe to feeds that other people have created

twitter has that

Twitter lets you ingest their firehose and engineer your own algorithms on top of that and lets other people subscribe to those? Cool. Show me.

Blueksy also has unique labelers and moderation lists. My favorite is the politician donor labeler.

Not after Twitter started forcing you to see accounts you don't follow.

It doesn't.

It absolutely has, in my experience. Bluesky also seems to be less heavy-handed with account bans.

Mastodon (open/distributed/Wild West) and Bluesky (commercial/probably ending up like X at some point).

I switched to Bluesky a few months ago and very happy with that decision

Mastodon and Bluesky are the main ones as far as I'm aware

Bluesky is not bad if you're interested in tech and science.

Those are the only two things I really wanted in a twitter replacement so I’ve been happy with it

Non-US govt and municipals are moving to bluesky

Mastodon is the real alternative, but many people seem to be converging at bluesky. Which is fundamentally not much better.

Bluesky is where the sane people seem to have gone.. there was a split between that and threads, but threads is dying off.

I don't think Threads is dying, I believe Meta's numbers are actually quite good.

But the content pushed by its engagement algorithm makes the experience pretty far from what I'd expect from a serious Twitter alternative, even after several apparent tweaks. It could be a good platform for brands and celebrities though.

Yeah Threads feels like a flipped house; pretty finishes and big open concept rooms that draw you in before you can realize its all a facade and full of engagement bait

For me it began when he started suspending journalists or anyone who criticized him (so much for pro-free speech), lying about almost everything and still every day. He also started siding with racist commenters and white supremacists. And if that wasn't enough, the whole salute thing was disgusting and absolutely irresponsible. So yeah his pro Russian statements don't surprise me at all.

Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon...

Bluesky bsky.app

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