Everyone has their rules. There is no such thing as free speech on someone elses platform.
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Those are social media platforms that allow 3rd party clients, unlike X. There was a rude post here, now deleted, where someone thought that this app wouldn't support X because of the politics of the creators, but the real reason is because Musk banned 3rd party clients last year.
Instead of this app, check out OpenVibe. You can add Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr. The app is free and, so far, the only downside is you can only add one Mastodon account. The lifetime sub on Croissant isn't terrible if meets your needs, though.
It has over 900M users and is gaining more users than it loses, even the major advertisers who left recently returned because they understood it was a losing battle.
X copycats for people who want to leave X, lol.
LOL I don't think Muskrat's platform is largest anymore-- it's hemorrhaging users
Zero diversity of thought on BlueSky. But "croissant" is a pretty sweet name for this app.
"hemorrhaging" users.
The users who are leaving are the people who hear something they disagree with and need to run to BlueSky where they have a safe space with crayons, puzzles and coloring books.
Lol.
This is untrue. Blocking someone on Twitter until recently always prevented them from being able to see your posts or vice versa, as well as being unable to interact or engage with them in any way. Now it only prevents users from being able to engage with your posts or content. And that is not what I want in a social network. I don’t want the people I’ve blocked to continue being able to see my posts even after I blocked them.
I see both pro-Apple and anti-Apple users. Or is that not what you’re talking about?
Where exactly are you getting this figure from? Twitter (I refuse to call it X, that is a downright awful name for an app) hasn't reported proper user numbers or MAUs/DAUs since Musk bought it and took it private, and the numbers that Yaccarino are reporting are likely fabricated. At the start of 2024, it had an estimated 429 million users. I find it very hard to believe that it somehow gained 500 million users since then.
That isn't why people are leaving Twitter. It is a cesspool of false / fabricated information, information that has been heavily spread by Musk himself because he himself likes to make up a wide range of false information. I don't despise or oppose opposite opinions or viewpoints to mine, but I oppose intentionally spreading false information to try and emplace fear into people, which Twitter has become a beacon and transmitter for since Musk took over. That is why people are leaving it for alternative platforms; not because they don't want diverse viewpoints, but because they don't want to be fed intentionally false and misleading information; it's why I even left despite having used the platform since 2011. Misinformation as a whole needs to be eliminated.
You’ll need to get rid of all governments then, as politicians pretty much lie for a living, if you haven’t figured that out yet.
Getting rid of misinformation can’t happen, won’t happen and will never happen—an impossibility.
Censorship is eventually and always used as a weapon against truth, which is why wise people long before we were born knew just how important freedom of speech was, to the point that they formulated and legally enshrined documents to preserve it. They experienced the world without it and learned its invaluable lessons.
Freedom of speech means people can make any claim they want, and others can tell them where and why they are wrong. Freedom the speech is the foundation of Western civilisation.
You can refuse stubbornly to call it X all you want but that’s the name of the app and website now. Or are you practicing in misinformation?
This is the specifics and a clarification of the answer ChatGPT gave me two days ago:
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Okay, so 250 million users. How many of those are bots, fake, spam, or hacked? Also, it's not misinformation to refer to it as Twitter. That was its name from 2006 up until July 2023, and even the name of the domain itself until mid-May 2024. Twitter is still its most common name and the name most people use to refer to the platform, hence why even the Wikipedia entry for it still calls it Twitter.
And I am not responding to your freedom of speech comments because those are inherently political.
You just quoted, in another post, a source that verifies what I said. You can't even defend your lie without disproving it.
Censorship on those woke social networks is extreme. Do you remember when Greta Thunberg sailed over the Atlantic? She was in the Twitter trends every day. So I posted "Each time Greta Thunberg is trending, I hope she got eaten by sharks.". Twitter banned me for 30 days for that tweet.
Facebook once banned me after I wrote that I do not like today's women, because they are focused on their career. I added that if a woman wants to make a career, she should marry her boss. That opinion might be controversial, but it is still in the spectrum of things you should be allowed to post.
Another time Twitter banned me for posting the private phone number of the German health minister, who had just announced that he will give private companies access to "anonymized" health data of millions of German citizens. So I was banned for doxing a guy who announced he will dox millions.
Facebook also marked this post of me for sharing false information:
Facebook fact checkers had found out that there is no Lego set about the capitol invasion. It seems they do not know what satire is. The worrying thing is that they made clear that they will shadow ban my account if I continue sharing false information. I mean, how dumb do you have to be think that this Lego set really exists?
Instagram has a very worrying algorithm that automatically deletes posts which it "thinks" are spam.
This one for example:
It seems that some words like "buy" and "money" trigger that algorithm. They even deleted a comment by me that said something like "Skyscrapers offer nice views". The word "offer" was the problem. I then wrote "Skyscrapers give you nice views." That is bad English, but the comment was not deleted.
Facebook once banned me after I wrote that I do not like today's women, because they are focused on their career. I added that if a woman wants to make a career, she should marry her boss. That opinion might be controversial, but it is still in the spectrum of things you should be allowed to post.
Another time Twitter banned me for posting the private phone number of the German health minister, who had just announced that he will give private companies access to "anonymized" health data of millions of German citizens. So I was banned for doxing a guy who announced he will dox millions.
Facebook also marked this post of me for sharing false information:
Facebook fact checkers had found out that there is no Lego set about the capitol invasion. It seems they do not know what satire is. The worrying thing is that they made clear that they will shadow ban my account if I continue sharing false information. I mean, how dumb do you have to be think that this Lego set really exists?
Instagram has a very worrying algorithm that automatically deletes posts which it "thinks" are spam.
This one for example:
It seems that some words like "buy" and "money" trigger that algorithm. They even deleted a comment by me that said something like "Skyscrapers offer nice views". The word "offer" was the problem. I then wrote "Skyscrapers give you nice views." That is bad English, but the comment was not deleted.
The thing is that blocking was never a way to totally stop someone from seeing your tweets because they could just spin up an alt account and follow you with that or open a private tab and paste in the URL of your tweet, if they had access to it. The recent change allowing people to view tweets from people that blocked them is more or less just paving the cowpaths of what semi-tech-savvy people were doing anyway. Having a private account was the only way to prevent this.
At any rate if you don't want people you've blocked to see your posts, Fediverse ("Mastodon") or BlueSky are not good alternatives since their federated network model means blocking is even less effective than it was on Twitter because everything you post is firehosed across the internet to anyone who will listen - it's up to the client software (open sourced, in most cases, so easily modifiable) to decide if user A shouldn't be able to see user B's posts.
As for how many users Twitter has, it's kind of a moot point - we can at least agree that Twitter is by far the biggest Twitter-like ("microblogging") service out there, right? Yes, some percentage of those accounts will be bots, but it's not like that won't be a problem on other services too - if anything federated services will be even more bot-friendly since there's no single source of moderation with a massive budget and dedicated team tasked with dealing with malicious bots.
Edit: And I say this as someone who hasn't used Twitter in years, preferring to use a couple Fediverse accounts instead - I find the Twitter firehouse overwhelming and the relative Fediverse trickle from accounts I follow to be much more manageable.
Calling it Twitter now I label as misinformation. You will now be banned from the service and receive two points off your social credit score.
Everyone knows what this means by now: “Your opinions are illegal because I don't like them.” The West is under existential threat from people claiming to seek “fairness.”
Your source says monthly VISITORS. Not users. And then confirms what I said about it's users.
Maybe don't wish people death?
It's not controversial, it's ignorant.
That seems like they did the correct thing. Glad they acted, because you clearly don't understand what doxing is.