Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

There's Urbit and Twetch. First uses some of ethereum, and calling a twitter replacement is 1% of it's story. Twetch uses a bitcoin fork as a db and users have to pay to post, but get impression revenue directly

Sure, it would cost something like 50$ a tweet and nobody would read em, but the protocol allows it.

Oh wow, @InInteraction there are plenty of federated twitter (and facebook, and youtube, and instagram, etc.) alternatives...The key term to search for is "fediverse" (sort of a portmaneau of federated univers of social networks). The following info site might help with a brief overview: https://the-federation.info/

There are many other sites that can provide an overview/intro. Plus, the following is a sample of alternatives:

Blogging => Plume, Write.as/WriteFreely => Comparable to Blogger.com, Medium, Tumblr

Image Hosting => PixelFed, MediaGoblin => Comprable to Instagram

Microbloging => Gnu social, Mastodon, Microblog.pub, Pleroma, postActiv, pump.io, etc. => Comparable to twitter

Pastebin => distbin => Comparable to Pastbin.com, ~GitHub

Social networking => Diaspora, Friendica, Honk, Hubzilla => Comparable to Facebook

Audio/Video hosting => PeerTube, funkwhale, NodeTube => Comprable to Youtube, SoundCloud, vimeo

Events => Mobilizon => Comparable to Facebook, Meetup.com

Forum/Link Aggregator => Lemmy => Comparable to Hacker News, Lobste.rs, Reddit

Good luck!!!

There are federated networks which don't allow for centralised access restrictions as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, et al, are evidencing today.

But projects such as Mastodon put control in the hands of site or node administrators, and at least on Mastodon, there's an exceedingly healthy culture of blocking sites which themselves advocate oppressive practices.

So those looking for an uncensored microphone may be somewhat disappointed.

I welcome their tears.