Ask HN: Are there viable alternatives to Twitter?

but why?

I don't understand why people are upset with Elon's takeover

I'm building https://sqwok.im

Just posted it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31160302

Yea see, Elon opening the floodgates to shit like this is why people want to run for the hills.

People want to be able to criticize Enron Musk without being doxxed or worse. He has done it in the past and didn't even own twitter back then, so it's only logical to think that there'll be a huge collection of info on critcs.

He's the most thin skinned person in the world, takes everything personally and he's all around mentally unstable.

Also Musk PR dept. will be able to leverage twitter infrastructure.

Basically what Putin wants to do with Ukraine, Musk will do with Twitter, it's only natural that the digital outflow of people is going to replicate the real one we are seeing in Eastern Europe.

People are repulsed by autocrats. And if they have an opportunity, they leave. It's a win-win because it both improves one's life and diminishes the relevance of the autocrat.