In 2023, Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, amid accusations of racism on the site. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg started Threads and was sued for addicting minors to Facebook and Instagram.
Seeing an opportunity to lure in disgruntled Twitter users, Facebook parent Meta launched its own rival, Threads, in July. It soared to popularity as tens of millions began signing up
The decision of Meta’s Threads to join Fediverse–a network of social media platforms including Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, GNU Social and PeerTube–has underscored the need for a decentralised social internet that enables users of different platforms to interact with each other
Here are other Twitter-like apps you can check out while X is still down. X (formerly Twitter) went down once more. And this time is surely not the last.
Flipboard is the latest mainstream app to officially join the fediverse, the collection of decentralized services that run on the ActivityPub protocol.