For posterity, some resources for deciding whether to try Pillowfort, given there's a detectable choster community setting up there.

Somebody who isn't me wrote up a primer about its pros and cons here.

And if you want to see what it CAN look like in practice, my feed's available here as an example.

(There's a lot of variety as people focus on different things.)

And here's one of the (several?) communities set up by folks from cohost.

If any of that appeals, I have resources for getting set up there below.

I'm going to put this here as a resource for people in case it's useful: I'm a big believer that we need more alternative options for social media to show they're viable, and also foundationally because they have different vibes and tools.

However, I'm also a big believer that it's far more effective for people to make up their own minds about whether a given social media space will work for them than describing it TO them. So here's some tools for doing that with pillowfort.

Here's a list of links for the most active communities on the site, also links to a longer list of generally active communities.

That's a good way to have a climb around and see how the place works. If you want to see what a feed looks like in practice, mine is here.

If any of that appeals, here's a link to a free rolling waitlist for invites. It typically returns codes in around ten minutes.

And here's a page of tips for getting the best out of the place, on the grounds that anything to reduce the time/energy spent getting used to somewhere new can't hurt.

this post has some explanation. here are current Nitter instance statuses. about half are now non-functional.

i used Nitter.net (which i now learn was just one instance of the larger project) when i wanted to make a tweet and/or its subsequent replies readable for people without Twitter accounts; over the past six months Twitter has made its site all but impossible to view without a login.

is there any other way to make Twitter threads easily viewable to everyone? i tried putting a tweet in archive.is, but it only captured the limited view a non-logged user would see.