You cannot get an "alternative" to it because people refuse to acknowledge that Twitter was never all that great in the first place.
I do think there may be an aspect of permanent fracture. There's a reason people used to affectionately call it the hellsite. Even if Naughty ol' Mr Car were to give up on it and go to spend more time with his imaginary car tunnels, and if borderline sensible (it was never _great_) management, third party clients, etc, were restored, I'm not sure I'd go back. Frankly, at this point, mastodon suits me better anyway.
Twitter, before Elon's takeover, was a crypto-obsessed political echo chamber.
IME, old-Twitter _was_ better at keeping the stuff you didn't want to see out of your face. I never saw crypto people but did see people making fun of crypto, for instance. I rarely if ever saw a post from Musk, and then only if someone retweeted it. After the takeover this degraded within months; I had to block Musk because it kept shoving him in my face, I started getting content from a wide variety of conspiracy theorist lunatics, shock content, extremely obvious Russian propaganda, etc.
By the time I stopped using it (November 2022 I think) the algorithmic timeline had become pretty much unusable. Some users were surprised to start seeing porn; old-twitter, of course, was full of porn, but it was very good at not showing it to you if you didn't look for it.
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I do think there may be an aspect of permanent fracture. There's a reason people used to affectionately call it the hellsite. Even if Naughty ol' Mr Car were to give up on it and go to spend more time with his imaginary car tunnels, and if borderline sensible (it was never _great_) management, third party clients, etc, were restored, I'm not sure I'd go back. Frankly, at this point, mastodon suits me better anyway.
IME, old-Twitter _was_ better at keeping the stuff you didn't want to see out of your face. I never saw crypto people but did see people making fun of crypto, for instance. I rarely if ever saw a post from Musk, and then only if someone retweeted it. After the takeover this degraded within months; I had to block Musk because it kept shoving him in my face, I started getting content from a wide variety of conspiracy theorist lunatics, shock content, extremely obvious Russian propaganda, etc.
By the time I stopped using it (November 2022 I think) the algorithmic timeline had become pretty much unusable. Some users were surprised to start seeing porn; old-twitter, of course, was full of porn, but it was very good at not showing it to you if you didn't look for it.