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Softare to replace tweetadder11/22/2023 ![]() Mastodon is also part of the Fediverse, for example. Mozilla said just this week it is planning to launch its own publicly accessible instance in the "Fediverse." A portmanteau of federation and universe, the Fediverse is essentially a group of independent but interconnected servers that interact and offer their own software packages. The latest Twitter alternative to be announced comes from Mozilla, the organization that runs the Firefox browser. Mozilla.Social (expected to launch in 2023) A beta version of the platform is expected in late January. Announced at the start of December, Spoutible is being described as a new social platform that will allow users to "spout off" while avoiding harassment and other such issues. Spoutible comes out of Bot Sentinel, a tool created by Christopher Bouzy, that identifies, tracks and flags Twitter bots or accounts that are engaging in targeted or coordinated online attacks and disinformation campaigns. In October, not long before Musk took control of Twitter, Bluesky began to allow signups for a waitlist, saying its beta will "launch soon." Dorsey has shared little detail about Bluesky, beyond it being designed as a decentralized social network protocol. Bluesky (expected to launch in 2023)īorn in 2019 as a research project at Twitter still under Jack Dorsey, Bluesky is now being built wholly independent of the platform he founded. It has also received an undisclosed amount of funding from VC fund Andreessen Horowitz and Scott Galloway, the NYU professor and media personality. Still in Beta, Post now has more than 300,000 active users and more than 600,000 people on a waitlist to join, according to Bardin. Post launched only in November, earlier than planned because as founder and former Waze CEO Noam Bardin wanted to capitalize on the moment created by Musk of people actively looking for alternatives to Twitter. Monthly usage is still up by 44%, although, like Mastodon and Hive, downloads have dropped off in the last month, falling by 83%. ![]() It's reached 110,000 downloads of its iOS app, an increase of 4,500% since the end of October, with daily users up 2,500% to about 18,000, according to Apptopia. The platform has received less public and media attention than Mastodon or Hive, but that doesn't mean it hasn't also grown in the wake of Musk's Twitter takeover. It refreshes constantly, offering a more kinetic feel than other social platforms, and there is a $4.99 per month upgrade available that unlocks a number of features, including live streams of network news, emergency radio traffic, and ephemeral file sharing and voice calls and various additional privacy features. It has a more unique interface that defaults to a dashboard showing a few columns of posts similar in look to TweetDeck. The platform is not trying to be all things to all people – it blocks entire countries from access, like Russia, China and Iran. Meanwhile, at least half a dozen other Twitter-like platforms have recently been launched in beta or are set to be early next year, including Post.News, Spoutible, Mozilla.Social and Bluesky, founded by none other than Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey.Ī look at a homepage of Counter Social, a new Twitter alternativeĬounter Social launched in 2020, started by the pseudonymous self-identified "hacktivist" The Jester. Daily usage of Mastodon, Hive Social, and Counter Social are all up dramatically over the last two months. ![]() Still, Mastodon and other new potential Twitter rivals have grown, particularly since Musk officially took control of Twitter at the end of October, data gathered by Insider shows. It's more like, 'Just tell me what to do.'" "You have to choose a server and really, people don't like to make decisions. "There is a usability hurdle," said David Carr, senior insights manager at SimilarWeb, who has been tracking Mastodon's trajectory. Whatever the benefits of a decentralized network like Mastodon, easy to use it is not. And it is easy to use, the hallmark of American-born social media companies. ![]() A potent mix of news, opinion, comedy, cringe and unpredictable drama has kept it a fixture for a decade-plus. Long before Elon Musk came along, Twitter users bemoaned the service yet remained addicted to it. Never before have there been so many possible alternatives to Twitter, even if none seem to be anywhere close to a real replacement for the platform. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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