I've spent a fair amount of time on many of the Twitter alternatives and this one is the best. There's a level of simplicity and authenticity that doesn't exist among any of them. Many can best be described as "odd."
Hive has a user interface and algorithm problem. You are tossed into an echo chamber the moment you join. Tribel is Occupy Democrats and asks for a weird amount of personal information. I faked all that and it is basically far-left Twitter. Mastodon has a federated timeline that scrolls so fast as to be useless, and also has an impersonation and moderation problem. Abuse on all of them is amlost completely unchecked.
I am not sure what their appeal is when this place is here.
