X (formerly Twitter) has finally decided to pull the plug on the old Twitter app for Mac, which wasn't updated for years. Instead of replacing it with a modern app, the company is forcing users to use the X iPad app instead, which itself is suffering from account suspension issues.
“If you’re a Twitter diehard who’s not willing to swap to X, it might be finally time to ditch X for Mastadon or Threads. On your way out, don’t forget to delete your X account.”
Best advice in the article.
I’m on mastodon, but the problem is none of the people I want to follow are (mostly sports press). for now I am relying on bots who just repost their stuff from twitter, and sometimes they go down for long periods of time. at this rate I’m not sure mastodon will ever take off for what I used twitter for.
And threads is equally shitty, or worse than twitter. I begrudgingly signed up for an instagram account to try it, followed a few people, then my feed was crammed full of instagram catfish and sad ass middle aged dudes asking for dates. I get that they’re trying to hook you with algorithms, but in the process they’ve made the service literally unusable.
Yea I tried threads recently myself & had the exact same problems. I followed like a total of 3 people, yet my feed was filled with utter crap that I wasn’t the slightest bit interested in…
I’ve been on it for about a month. All the people I followed on Instagram (that have downloaded threads) automatically were added to my follows. Lots of Sci Fi and movie discussion
Politics, too.
My experience has actually been pretty good. It’s like Twitter but with a lot more leftists stuff
Maybe if I had given it a real chance and started following a few more people, I might have had a much better experience. My feed was filled with random stuff that I was never going to have any interest in…
How about Bluesky?
haven’t joined, but from what I saw checking it out it has the same problem as mastodon.
Bluesky gets forgotten
As it should be.
Why?
Good news! I already did, the day the moron Musk took over.
I’ve never used Twitter a lot and I’ve mostly stopped using it, but Mastodon is just not a viable alternative for most people. I used Twitter to keep up with things. I made a Mastodon account like two years ago, but almost none of the people or organisations I care about are on there. And most of the ones that are on it aren’t posting. So I’m basically never using it. The same is true for Bluesky. Threads may be better but I’d rather avoid anything from Facebook.
Well you’ll soon be able to subscribe to the big accounts on Threads, even from Mastodon, provided your server allows it.
I personally wonder if the time for this kind of microblogging hasn’t come and gone now. A lot of media on Instagram but my teenage kids don’t use Twitter, don’t want to use Twitter and don’t care about what happens to Twitter. Pry TikTok out of their hands, though…