Twitter has gone from relatively open to instagram / facebook level of closedness where I can't even share a video with my friends because it asks them to log in. I had to rely on nitter and xcancel for that... Now that no longer works either

I have one niche that I use twitter for. If it wasn't for that - would have deleted my account long time ago. Things like this push me towards that direction, though.

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yuck39 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I actually paid for their dumb monthly subscription only so that I could download videos within the app to share with my friends who don't use X. Only after paying did I realize that by "download videos" it means "cache videos locally inside the app for offline playback". It still would not allow me to save the video to my local device. Misleading, tacky, possibly even desparate.

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spacechild1 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just go ahead and quit! I had a niche use case for FB, but I decided to quit nevertheless because I didn't want to support the platform anymore. Today I don't miss it a single bit. (I never had a Twitter account in the first place.)

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dimitarbogdanov 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I know it is Meta-owned and is just as algorithmic, but Threads is a breath of fresh air in terms of access - the website is pratically the same in terms of UX as the app, and it does not require an account to browse at all. Just thought it'd be worth mentioning.

	▲	rwmj 10 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I assume only because Meta have forgotten about it or haven't got around to closing it down yet.
	▲	linuxftw a minute ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You gotta build the garden before you build the walls.

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kevin_thibedeau 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's glorious. We no longer have to stumble into a blog post split into dozens of tweets.

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Razengan 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Someone should be putting AI to the test and make it walk the talk by making a viable alternative to Facebook/Twitter etc :)

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phoghed 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s a trivial project, it’s babbys first crud app. Getting everyone to use it is the hard part. There are already great alternatives that show this.

Then scaling and paying for it is the hard part.

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mannycalavera42 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this one :thumb-up

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llm_nerd 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There are many already. The code is not why people use those sites. In the case of Meta specifically, it's basically in spite of the user-hostile, garbage code.

The network effect / entrenchment means that any replacement has to be massively better in every dimension to have a chance. Otherwise people just stick to what they know, and then other people stick to it because the other people do. And so on.

I personally think Musk is a garbage-tier human who represents everything wrong with culture wars, and his brain is long blasted into a mush of worthless racist noise and stupidity by drug abuse, so I deleted my X account. Loads of others are too cowardly/selfish to do so.

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user43928 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Or they just disagree with you.

I believe Musk might be a decent person. He is obviously smart, but perhaps he fears foreigners too much.

X is decent for getting the latest news. The comment sections are often filled with garbage, even more so than Reddit. Ads are hard to distinguish from normal posts. There is a lot of bots in the comments.

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jamesnorden 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think people try alternatives, turns out to be a ghost town, then they just go back.

	▲	johnnyanmac 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And that's the power of network effects. Popularity because it's popular is a hard loop to break.

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smelendez 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People really do not want to give up the reach once they have tasted it.

It’s a shame: I remember when people would be so excited to get 100 strangers visiting their blogs but in a month, but now someone blogging for an audience like that would seem a little crazy, maybe paradoxically even overly grandiose.

Also, the harm from using X is complex. It basically comes from endorsing the site and encouraging other people to come there where they’ll be exposed to a cesspit of bigotry and right-wing ideas. It’s easy to tell yourself that what you’re doing there outweighs the cons, and that other sites are just as bad, etc.