I meant among micro-blogging platforms. X, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, etc.
Yea, though I was referring to “these” mentioned in the article.
I said exactly the same to my friends this morning. It is like stepping back in time to when I used to see all sorts of fun and interesting things on Twitter years ago, not the toxic cesspool it has become now. It's refreshing and just so nice to see life enriching things again.
I read somewhere the other day a commentator saying how Musk has beasically turned it into Truth Social v2. I thought that was bang on. And as for his touting freedom of speech, it is just so long as it is Musks kind of speech. Pretty sure there is a word for that.
Some of the platforms listed above Twitter are used for microblogging, though not exclusively. It’s difficult to delimit, and also varies by country.
You can mute words on X. It's one of the best features of the service. MKBHD mutes the word of a certain colour, and other words, for example. I don't like most of the political content out there, and I have 100 words muted, many of which include political terms. I prefer X because you can self-censor to create the social media environment you prefer, without algorithms or moderators hiding things you may indeed want to view, as old-twitter and every other heavily-sensored platform does. YouTube uses AI to do it and it's so aggressive their level of comments censorship.
So you prefer Mastodon? Because that is the only one that is unfiltered. X still removes posts and bans users. They just do it in the opposite political direction that Threads does. Political hard-lining sucks on either side. Hope you are actually serious and support freedom, and not just buying one sides propaganda? Because that would be cool to meet an uncommon free thinker here in the wild. Though I guess it is likely you just bought into the "*free and open social media" advertising campaign run by heavily politically leaning management at X. That is a huge asterisk.
Enjoying social media is as simple as actively managing what you see. Be selective in who you follow, what you comment on, and block sources/accounts you don't enjoy. Social media for me is my actual friends and my hobbies. I dont see any of the enraging stuff people complain about. It's akin to complaining about spam email when you dont manage your spam filter.
I seem to recall people saying the same thing about Myspace when this little thing called Facebook started catching on.
Most of the people moving over
This is an awful take. Twitter is by no means the largest social media network. That would be Facebook and Instagram.
This is false. People are leaving because of how significantly bad Twitter as a platform has become, including taking away or reducing the significance of a feature, such as basically rendering the block feature useless by changing it to where users can still see your posts and everything even if you have them blocked. There are other reasons but I can’t go into them without getting political.
Threads was this annoying thing that seeped into my Instagram. My geriatric butt could barely figure out how to decouple it.
