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Tweetadder replacement4/17/2023 It just has to be new.Twitter software is priceless when it comes to penetration and time effectiveness. Because it doesn't even have to be vastly different or vastly better than Twitter. ![]() Either an improved Mastodon or something new entirely. So I'm hoping that something better comes along. But it currently doesn't look poised to replace Twitter. Mastodon got some things right: No nazis, no gore, no excessive advertising, no harassment. But if some of the essential features are broken - like being able to have the same nickname across the entire network - it won't last long. In fact, the world needs it so badly it's ready to jump on whatever bandwagon comes next. If there ever was a moment in which a new social network needed to rise from the ashes of the old one, this is it. Where do Hollywood stars go to build semi-honest relationships with their fans? Finally, without Twitter, what would President Trump do while he's waiting for the next executive order signing ceremony to begin? Where do you go to vent when Facebook is down? Where do you go to share that random thought, aimed at no one in particular? How do you complain to the airline when your flight is late (you can do it on Facebook, but it likely won't get the same attention). It happened to Digg, and it happened to MySpace.īut we still need Twitter. These things sometimes happen to social networks: The community grows toxic to the point of everyone, even the instigators of that toxicity, hating it. In fact, nothing Twitter has done in the past couple of years managed to kickstart user growth or help the company make money. ![]() And yet, tens of thousands are flocking to Mastodon, which has a 500-character limit? A lot of users were unhappy, and the social network never went through with the idea. Take, for example, that time when Twitter said it's considering expanding its 140-character limit. ![]() In fact, Twitter has somehow managed to alienate its user base - with one unwanted and (mostly) unneeded feature after the other - so much that it can't wait to go elsewhere. That doesn't mean Twitter doesn't have problems. Twitter has somehow managed to alienate its user base so much that it can't wait to go elsewhere. Mastodon can be your private Twitter, but - unless something changes - it can't be the new Twitter. But Reddit, the big one, has not been replaced by them they're not even a blip on its radar, traffic-wise. It's like when Reddit released its source code: Anyone could build their own Reddit, and some of these tiny Reddits, like Hacker News, have been moderately successful. Sure, Mastodon's decentralized nature has its uses. Imagine if Twitter was not Twitter, but you had Twitter Asia, Twitter NYC, Twitter Dodgers Fans, and you had to register your username separately on every instance. It also has a host of drawbacks, the main one being the inability to control your identity over multiple instances. Besides being decentralized and a little more rule-heavy, its only major advantage is having a character limit of 500 characters (instead of Twitter's 140). Inside Twitter's decision to keep Periscope and abandon everything elseīut Mastodon is not a huge improvement over Twitter.
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