Time to ditch Twitter/X, what are you guys switching to? ( kbin.social )

andyMFK , 11 months ago

I’ve never understood exactly what people get out of Twitter, and don’t understand why you’d need an alternative? Why not just use Lemmy as your alternative?

verysoft , 11 months ago

News and updates from specific companies/projects/people.

How people always fail to see the usefulness of the platform amazes me. There is nothing else like it for that purpose, moving elsewhere is difficult if all the accounts you are interested in are not also moving there.

b1ab , 11 months ago

Exactly.

Not everyone is on twitter for the political bullshit. Using banned words it’s easy to filter any political garbage. Twitter is quite useful. But I’m not there to convince or push my ideology on a bunch of polarized people. What a waste of energy.

Kaldo , 11 months ago

Exactly, if you block enough and follow the right people the twitter feed is a pretty good place to get news and content. Hard to get that on mastodon since, well... no algorithm to actually show these things to you, no people to actually follow and no time to read everything chronologically.

verysoft , 11 months ago

Its definitely a lot worse now, but at its peak twitter algorithm worked pretty well, not that I ever used it, always did the standard chronological, but I wasn't following 100s of accounts anyway.

Had to setup RSS again now, but its not the same as it used to be, harder to find decent blogs with the news/updates I want that support RSS.

Gordon_Freeman , 11 months ago

News and updates from specific companies/projects/people

So let's say I'm interested in tech. I got my news and updates from tech oriented websites/blogs, with the added benefits of tutorials and other articles also posted there, why would I want to use twitter?

verysoft , 11 months ago

Then that's great for you. Setup RSS and you are away.

But not everyone has their own website/blog and they use twitter instead.