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Jeffrey P. Bigham 🔥🔥Jul 30, 2023

how come nobody has tried releasing a fully functioning twitter alternative? is it really that hard?

- threads has no web interface
- bluesky is invite only, idk if mobile even exists
- mastadon is all the things the glorious creators of it designed it to be and thus isn't very good

- twitter itself seems to be competing in this landscape of broken nonsense

CAN SOMEONE NOT JUST COPY THE OLD TWITTER??

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Sean Tilley Jul 30, 2023

@jbigham Mastodon has a ton of alternative frontends. https://elk.zone is probably the closest thing we have to a "Twitter interface", which can be used by anything that has the Mastodon API.

Elk

A nimble Mastodon web client

Elk

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Sibylle Hess

@deadsuperhero @jbigham I just played around with elk. Yes it's still a bit buggy but at least I feel like I have an overview again. I don't know why I find mastodons Layout so confusing, I feel immediately lost when I go in here.