Over the past few weeks, we're sure you've read a lot about Elon Musk's acquisition of the social media platform Twitter. After buying the company, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX is seen to have ordered the employees of the company to introduce a number of new features that are said to improve the quality of the platform and at the same time fired those who were supposed to develop these features.
Elon Musk's intervention on Twitter has caused a number of hardcore users of the platform to start looking for other social media platforms, and it is not surprising that many Twitter users do not want to use Facebook either because the platform is also seen to have many of its own problems.
In this article, we will introduce a number of new and old social platforms that can be considered if you are one of those who want to escape from the drama on Twitter.
Reddit is a digital community that has existed around the same time as Facebook, and although Facebook has seen a much more dramatic increase in usage, Reddit is arguably a safe place for people to discuss a wide variety of topics that may not be appropriate to discuss on the platform. -other platforms.
The uniqueness of Reddit comes through the digital community "subreddit" which allows users to develop pages with a wide variety of topics and interests that can be administered by Reddit users themselves without intervention from Reddit itself, except when the content featured on the subreddit is found to be in violation of the platform's rules of use. .
As a long-term user of this platform, Reddit is not only one of the platforms that I personally use to get daily news and information sharing, but also where I can learn about various new interesting topics.
Just like any other social platform, the content that will be shown to you depends on the content that you yourself browse and subscribe to, so the more scholarly communities you join, the more content that meets your taste on the front page.
Mastodon
Mastodon was introduced around six years ago by a former Twitter user who at the time seemed to have "seen" the future when the issues plaguing Twitter eventually consumed the social media platform itself.
Similar to Twitter, Mastodon is a social media platform that allows users to share opinions and content on a timeline that can be read and shared by the public as well. Apart from the website, Mastodon is also present in the form of an application that can be used on the Android and iOS platforms, just like Twitter.
The most significant difference that can be seen when these two platforms are compared is that Mastodon is an open source platform, which means that it is very difficult to be taken over by any business entity or individual.
In being an open source platform, Mastodon also has different "servers" that house different communities. The idea for such a platform is that it allows users to only see "toots" (like tweets) about the topics they want to see.
This means that by following certain servers, you can see content shared by a number of users without having to follow any individual. Just like Reddit, content monitoring on Mastodon's servers also depends on the server owner, so if you don't like how a certain server is monitored, you can leave it, and try another server anyway.
Mastodon's user base has reportedly increased significantly in recent times, presumably because many Twitter users who don't like the platform's recent developments are looking for a new online haven because of concerns that far-right factions will dominate the platform on the grounds of free speech.
Discord
You might find it a little strange that Discord is one of the chat platforms listed in this article. And it's true, Discord is a chat software that was initially developed to make it easier for gamers to communicate with each other in games played together.
Despite that, Discord now comes with a number of new content sharing features, individual and group video streaming, and a community that is in my opinion the most modern even when compared to other platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Google Meet.
Discord is seen as a digital community platform that is quite popular among online content creators and game developers, but lately it has also been used
Discord is seen as a digital community platform that is quite popular among online content creators and game developers, but lately it has also been used to develop communities that may not have much to do with the gaming hobby.
Similar to Reddit and Mastodon, Discord communities are maintained by community owners and moderators. Not only that, the larger community will sometimes receive an invitation from Discord itself to test new features that will be introduced first.
Just like Twitter Blue, Discord also has a Discord Nitro subscription, but it's only necessary if you want functions like streaming at high resolution, file upload size limits and more extensive use of emojis.
Tumblr
Introduced in 2007, Tumblr is a microblogging platform that was quite popular among users in the beginning because it houses adult content that is usually very difficult to share on other platforms.
Yahoo! later took over the platform in 2013 for $1.1 billion, but because the internet technology company did not know how to manage the site, it lost a large number of users, whereupon it was later acquired by Automattic (the parent company of WordPress) in price less than $20 million.
Earlier this year, it was reported that Tumblr has started to regain popularity, particularly among young adults, with some reports saying that the majority of its users are seen to be aged 24 and under.
Just like Twitter, the content shown on your timeline is controlled by you, based on the Tumblr users you follow. The uniqueness of this platform is shown through how you can share your thoughts on the content shared by other users and other users can also interact with the comments left by you, making it a tight community.
Others
Apart from the choice of social media platforms mentioned above, there are also some other digital social platforms that can be considered, as we will list below. It is not listed as a major social platform because access to these services is limited in terms of device access and popularity.
IRC
For those of you who may be too young to remember or know about the existence of IRC, it was the earliest online chat software, dating back to the 1990s. Apart from an online community that has its own niche, it is also used as a platform for sharing files and open source content that is self-administered by users and is among the platforms that introduced the concept of digital decentralization before the name of the concept was used.
Clubhouse
Clubhouse is a very unique social media platform because it popularizes the concept of chatting online when the world is plagued by the COVID-19 epidemic. Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Barack Obama were among the individuals who popularized this platform when it was first introduced on iOS devices first, and access was limited to invitations via iMessage.
Although Clubhouse showed a sudden increase in popularity when it was introduced, its delay in opening the platform to the public, especially users of the Android platform meant that they grew tired of waiting, and migrated to Twitter Spaces when Twitter introduced their own real-time chat platform to their users.
