Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to...
by newswasboring on Sunday April 17, 2022 @12:37AM
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My question was kinda selfish. I want to move now. If there are a billion places, please tell me so I can move there now before the masses arrive and even that gets ruined :)
Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to...
by caslon on Sunday April 17, 2022 @03:13AM
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There's no easy answer to this. A billion different places users could go doesn't mean they have active communities, and if I mentioned where I like to hang out on the internet, those areas would probably get ruined.
Instead, I'll mention two platforms some of my friends like, to avoid taking the cost of a ruined platform myself:
sqwok.im: This one is the most microblog-like of the two, but it's also the least conventional. The quality varies; the front page only looks good every once in a while.
tildes.net: This one is invite-only, which helps mitigate the masses jumping in somewhat, and is run by a former reddit administrator. The existing community isn't great, but it's good. Friendly enough people.
Where people will go doesn't really matter, because there are a billion places they can, and there's not always a clear migration path. Sometimes, a social platform just dies, and its communities form a diaspora on different platforms, without any "clear" successor (like what happened to Orkut), or just stop doing the whole social media thing (many Google+ contributors no longer post online anywhere).