Ever since information broke that Tesla CEO Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion, customers on Twitter have been freaking out concerning the destiny of their favourite social media platform.

Many are expressing a want to go away the service, primarily as a result of habits of Musk on Twitter, with many flocking to a newish platform referred to as Mastodon in latest weeks.

They’ve cheap fears that the service might, underneath his course, stray too removed from what it’s at this time and shift to a few of Musk’s pursuits like NFTs and cryptocurrency. Nonetheless, his mass-firing of the corporate’s workforce, and his plan for its subscription platform, Twitter Blue, has already sped up customers leaving already.

But many others are asking the place they may go, as a substitute. With this in thoughts, listed here are three platforms that might scratch the Twitter itch.

Mastodon

That is Twitter if it was open-source, and there have been a number of situations of the social platform.

You possibly can be part of servers on Mastodon that may be seen as totally different communities, though it could actually at occasions be complicated to inform which one you are in.

We have dipped our toe (opens in new tab) into the platform and, in comparison with Twitter, it is at present a problem in attempting to affix a server as a result of variety of new customers in the previous few months.

It is impressed by the format of Twitter, however you can even discover information and hashtags, then comply with and ‘increase’, Mastodon’s tackle retweets, as you would like.

Because of the platform mockingly trending on Twitter after the information broke of Musk shopping for the corporate, alongside his plan of charging $8 / £8 / AU$9 for a blue tick, a military of recent customers marched over to Mastadon, which is now struggling to assist them, which can be why we have additionally been unable to signal into its Android and iOS apps (opens in new tab) as effectively.

Discord

As soon as regarded as an app to solely discuss your favourite video games as you streamed on Twitch, it is grown into a spot the place you may create a ‘Server’ to debate nearly any subject you would like.

First launched in 2015, Discord (opens in new tab) permits you to be part of communities over textual content, voice, and video, so long as you be part of the related Servers and abide by their guidelines. If you happen to used to participate in boards on sure web sites within the early 00s, you will really feel at residence right here. These previous boards additionally targeted on matters the place you possibly can create your individual threads and posts about associated topics.

The identical rings true for Discord, however in a method that permits you to communicate with customers by means of, say, video. It additionally integrates with Steam, Xbox, and your PlayStation profile, so you may let others know what video games you are taking part in.

Reddit

Consider this as a bulletin-board web site (opens in new tab) full of reports and posts created by its customers. You possibly can ‘upvote’ and ‘downvote’ these posts, and these might be displayed in a rising listing of ‘subreddits’ that can present you the way widespread the posts are with others.

Whereas it isn’t a scrolling feed of individuals you comply with, you may comply with subreddits and your private home web page provides you with a curated listing of all of these matters, primarily based on how new and widespread they’re throughout the day.

There are additionally third-party apps you should use for Reddit which can be found on iOS and Android, akin to Apollo – these convey options which are unavailable for the official app (opens in new tab), akin to a gallery view.

With over 450 million customers on the positioning, it is unlikely you will discover a subject that hasn’t been lined or does not have its personal subreddit.