If You Want to Leave Twitter Because of Elon Musk, These Are Your Options

[usonian]

From Motherboard
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbqjd/if-you-want-to-leave-twitter-because-of-elon-musk-these-are-your-options
real short:

Mastodon
Discord
Tumblr
Neocities
Forums
Spacehey
Pillowfort
Start Your Own
Newsletters and Zines
Talk to your Friends and Family in Real Life

[dchill]

1. I want Elon Musk to leave Twitter because of ME.

[usonian]

3. Kinky!

[progree]

2. Tumblr - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr

On May 20, 2013, it was announced that Yahoo and Tumblr had reached an agreement for Yahoo! Inc. to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash.

. . . On August 12, 2019, Verizon Media announced that it would sell Tumblr to Automattic—operator of blog service WordPress.com and corporate backer of the open source blog software of the same name—for an undisclosed amount. Axios reported that the sale price was less than $3 million ... Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg stated that the site will operate as a complementary service to WordPress.com,

[TheBlackAdder]

21. The GenZers are jumping to Tumblr. Automattic's CEO is an EFF supporter and they own WordPress.

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16629478

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[HariSeldon]

4. Also diaspora*

An open source solution, but you either have to host a server or pay someone to do it for you.

Link: https://diasporafoundation.org/

[PortTack]

5. Adding countersocial

https://counter.social/index.html

Read earlier the site is being flooded with an influx of new accounts….hummmmm

[rpannier]

6. Went to check it out and the server was down

Must be getting a lot of interest

[OhioChick]

8. Might want to re-think Counter Social....

He's deleting his tweets and many are SS'ing them.

Link to tweet

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

12. I wouldn't even want...

to associate with myself based on things I posed in 2013.

Open minded people change and grow. It's what I do now that counts.

[Skittles]

13. so, you posted racist trash nine years ago?

these people make me sick

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

14. I posted...

RW propaganda and "evangelical" bullshit. At the time, I was still brainwashed enough to believe I was doing good.

[Skittles]

15. what makes you think he has reformed

the tweets were up for years, then he runs from it, blocks those who call him out

he got caught

[scipan]

22. Look closer.

Link to tweet

?t=Ghnslp4YKp5svOykhVzyvw&s=19

Link to tweet

?t=xKJAoBN5dfZ9RUQKYnDm5g&s=19

Link to tweet

?t=3iZ64G3fHhVOmVTfJgIJkA&s=19

[Skittles]

24. yeah, he's groveling after getting caught

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I love it when they say this isn't who I am when usually that is EXACTLY who they are.

from two years ago:

Link to tweet

/photo/2

dude is a racist piece of shit

[scipan]

26. The one post about Rittenhouse was 2 years ago.

[Skittles]

28. more proof he is a racist piece of shit

fuck him

[WarGamer]

25. I don't trust anyone who has an ideology that swings so far...

It means he has no convictions or substance.

[scipan]

27. I would not trust him either but probably be more open minded

towards him.

[Takket]

18. Is that Musk? On countersocial?

[rpannier]

7. I like the last option on your list best

If enough liberals leave twitter it might be come worthless, as conservatives seem to only want to belong to social media sites used by liberals

[orleans]

9. i'm seeing people are setting up counter social accounts

not sure what that is exactly.

[OhioChick]

10. Read my post above.... he owns it n/t

[orleans]

30. who owns it? musk? do you have a link? nt

[Roy Rolling]

11. Options for What?

The article raises an important question: option for what?

Twitter created and perfected the short-format messaging platform. It created the brand category it created and dominates.

Sure, there are dozens of other websites created and marketed as better-than-Twitter. But it’s impossible to replace the Twitter brand that exists in peoples minds.

And one of those brand things is Twitter bans nutjobs like Trump and his ilk who manipulate the platform for personal, nefarious purposes. If Musk wants to kill Twitter, let him make Twitter users associate with the same trash that infects Facebook. It may kill Twitter for the enlightened set, but they will find some other and more state-of-the-art way to associate.

But it will unlikely be a Twitter clone.

[BlueJac]

16. I'll take option #10

[Maraya1969]

17. I wish there was one we could all go to together.....and maybe cross post to get our message out.

I don't feel like posting anything more on Twitter. Let the Must lovers have it.

[C_U_L8R]

19. And DU.

Big opportunity here to grow.

[Ilsa]

20. I rarely post or go to twitter anymore. Usually,

I go because I clicked on a DU post. I can give it up, easily. I'll miss some of the people I follow.

[scipan]

23. I'm going to wait and see what happens.

The biggest irritation for me on Twitter is all the bots. If he improves it in that regard that's good. If TDG is allowed back on, it will probably change the character of the place since it changed markedly for the better when he was banned. If he wants verification of everyone that we are indeed regular people and not Russian trolls, maybe that's ok.

If it gets run over by RWNJs I will leave. But I have this belief that what I tweet and retweet makes a small bit of difference and has a tiny possiblity of changing someone's mind.

[roamer65]

29. I prefer Reddit.