Social Media Showdown: Mastodon vs. Threads vs. BlueSky vs. X (Twitter)

I’m clearly not a tech-expert. But I’ve been using social media for quite some time. As you probably know, a lot of people are jumping off the Twitter (X) platform to something else. But where should you go? Should you go? What other questions are there?

Of course I don’t have the best answers, but it might be useful (and even fun) to look at some of the options. Let’s get to it.

Twitter X

I guess I have to start with X (I think that is a dumb name). I remember my friends made me get on Twitter in 2008. We were going to use it as a replacement for AIM — AOL Instant Messnger (which I think had recently died or something). Yes, AIM and Twitter are very different. It was a mistake to try to use Twitter as a group chat. Oh well.

But after a few years, I found Twitter to be an acceptable replacement for RSS feeds — back in the good blogging days where we had RSS and comments. It was fun. Twitter gave a place to post blogs and find new stuff.

Of course now, things are just getting weird. No titles on news posts, the verified thing is weird and there are bots everywhere. Who knows how much longer it will last, but it’s not looking good.