Literally
anything could replace Twitter at
this point and
we'd be
better off
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I'm sorry,
Twitter, I really am. I've been a user for exactly a decade, and though I've never been a fanatical tweeter, I have been active all these years.*
But right **w the state of
Twitter is such that pretty much
anything resembling it
could replace it. The main requirement of
this new service? Just don't be Twitter.*
Case in point:
Mastodon. The open-source, decentralized
Twitter clone grew rapidly over the last week; so fast that the
main server (at Mastodon, they call
this "instance") had to shut down its doors for new users. And it's **t hard to guess where all these users are coming from: If you join one of the other instances right **w, most of the messages you'll see will be sighs of relief from users who finally feel freed from the shackles of Twitter.*
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