While Twitter is busy limiting the number of readable tweets and breaking its Tweetdeck app, open source Twitter alternative Mastodon is celebrating the launch of a significant refresh of its Android app. The new app, released over the weekend, features a complete Material You redesign — Google’s design language for Android — as well as […]
Aside from Mastodon.Social are there any other decent instances? I’m considering joining one; I liked Twitter before Elon bought it and miss it.
Of course Im staying on Lemmy as well. :)
There’s a ton of established instances that have been around for awhile
See: https://joinmastodon.org/
Thank you, I ended up joining Fosstodon 😘
mastodon.world is also maintained by Ruud, same Admin as lemmy.world
I’m waiting on my blue sky invite
I tried it. It was awful.
To be honest I’m not seeing the appeal of a centralized Twitter clone.
I don’t think it’s centralized.It is federated, similar to mastodon.
not yet, it’s just one invite-only server currently
It uses the AT protocol (proprietary to Bluesky) vs the ActivityPub like Mastodon/Lemmy/the Fediverse. Not sure it will be compatible.
I didn’t know this.Thanks!
Same, it could easily go the enshitification route once they gather enough momentum to become the dominant micro-blogging site.