[nine_zeros]

US alternatives don't feel too good either.

We need a neutral social media society that plays fair. Maybe a company HQed in Switzerland or something offering full privacy and full ad protection seems to be an opportunity.

[toomuchtodo]

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#ev...

https://freeourfeeds.com/

https://techcrunch.com/podcast/social-media-should-be-built-...

"Social media should be built on protocols, not platforms."

[est]

Or use decentralized ones like Bluesky

[winterbloom]

There's a reason that it isn't as popular as Twitter

[est]

besides the user base difference, any articles explain the reason?

[CM30]

Uh what? Most of the more active Twitter users/power users moved over, at least on one side of the political spectrum.

That and Twitter has been around way longer.

[fsflover]

It's not decentralized. Mastodon is.