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      The only thing that made twitter useable. No ads. You put your lists of people into columns, so you only saw exactly what you wanted to see. No algos trying to shove “you may like” stuff down your throat.

      I use it for work reasons but I’m not paying for it, I’ll deal without and start digging into what needs can be fulfilled with mastodon. I stopped using it the first time it broke for a week due to elon and I thought it was over then.

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        No algo is the big one for me. Don’t have to worry about that with Mastodon. And the advanced interface of Mastodon is also pretty nice.

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        I used regular lists on Twitter till I stopped using it a few months ago. No ads, chronological order. It was good

        But people I followed, I started seeing only replies from shitstain bluetlickers so I dropped it for good

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        I’ve never used TweetDeck but there is the Control Panel for Twitter, which makes it usable. It can auto-block all the bluechecks with under a million followers, hide the “For You” tab, block ads, and restore the old Twitter branding.

        Unfortunately the main reason I use Twitter is not the platform itself, but the public figures that are on it. Mastodon (mostly) doesn’t have that, though there is a trickle of some coming over.

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          Yeah same for the content. I use it for economic news primarily and while I’m starting to cultivate it with other means most of it is still on twitter.

          Now that I think about it, since I don’t interact on twitter I could make do with cross platform posting bots. Will need to spend some more time digging into mastodon this week.

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      It was a very popular 3rd party Twitter client that Twitter actually bought way back when.

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      A desktop Twitter client, meant for power and business users. You could have multiple accounts open at the same time, search for mentions, etc.