Twitter rivals emerge as options amid Elon Musk take over

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Twitter has been a bit of a mess since billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the helm, while it's not clear if the drama is causing many users to leave, lesser-known sites Mastodon and even Tumblr are emerging as new (or renewed) alternatives.

Twitter has been a bit of a mess since billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the helm, cutting the company's workforce in half, upending the platform's verification system, sparring with users over jokes and acknowledging that " dumb things " might happen as he reshapes one of the world's most high-profile information ecosystems.

Mastodon is a decentralized social network. That means it's not owned by a single company or billionaire. Rather, it's made up of a network of servers, each run independently but able to connect so people on different servers can communicate. There are no ads as Mastodon is funded by donations, grants and other means.

"We present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive to create a more resilient global platform without profit incentives," Mastodon's website says. Once you join, Clubhouse lets you start or listen into conversations on a host of topics, from tech to pro sports, parenting, Black literature and so on. There are no posts, photos or videos -- only people's profile pictures and their voices. Conversations can be intimate, like a phone call, or might include thousands of people listening to a talk by boldface names, like a conference or stage interview.

Twitter-style text and TikTok-style videos are one idea. Cselle says for this to work, the text really has to be "amped up" so it's not drowned out by the videos.

 

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Mastodon looks like a preschool app.

You mean Truth? 😏

Media hates him… hates free speech and citizen journalism.

Don't use Twitter, peasants. We can not allow this kind of stuff. Elon claimed that “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.”

He fixed twitter so well he made a bunch of other twitters?

I tried that one. It’s clunky and took forever to load anything up. Total waste of time.

Then move over there! What a bunch of clowns.

has no power 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ok, good luck. 🤣😂 See ya bye-bye!

Define rival.

You push this story so hard that sometimes I wonder if you aren't trying to reverse psychology people into staying on Twitter.

Lmfao no

Bahaha what a joke. Stories like this is why people stopped advertising with you.

Ctv news is desperate to get people to follow them to their dead echo chamber platform where they can censor you again

Wtf that’s twice today you’ve advertised this.

$8

Lol no.. left wing news can try as hard as they want but no

The woke won't leave Twitter because they can't troll and slander in an echochamber orgy.

Why are you reposting a post you put up several hours ago..needed to purge the comment?

🥱🤡

Twitter rivals emerged long before leftists were triggered - not that they did particularly well

4chan is the cream of the crop

looks like it's for children...who can't handle opposing views 🤣

Mastodon is a left wing, safe space, echo chamber circle-jerk. Any ideas expressed that go against the woke, collective hive mind are not tolerated.

We need a new platform. Let's call it WokeTwitter where everyone who doesn't agree with our sacred Woke Religion is banned. That's the only way we can achieve progress and democracy, and of course, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.

As you tweet this piece of 'news' Bye bye

Never heard of it. Why is CTV promoting it? If CTV hates Twitter, it can just quit

Lol...you guys...

Tried them. Even Trump's 'Truth Social' app. All pretty much unstable garbage.

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