There’s a good chance that Twitter, or Twitter-lite platforms, are not going anywhere.
Security Issues
Users are more conscious of security issues these days, as well as their privacy.
You may have wonderedwhat happened to Hive Social, which seemed to blow up and then quietly disappear.
That was the result of glaring security issues, which the developers have apparently resolved with an update.
Even Mastodon, which is meant to be decentralized and secure, has obvious security issues.
GETTR had a security issue so significant that thousands of users' emails were leaked, asThe Independentreported.
As it stands, this is probably a core reason that these Twitter alternatives are struggling to succeed.
If it tries to be too different from Twitter, you’re not getting a full Twitter alternative.
You could argue the same thing is happening with Twitter alternatives.
Truth Social has suffered hours-long outages.
GETTR, Mastodon, and Hive Social all have had security issues that are the result of poor infrastructure.
These infrastructure issues go on and on no matter which Twitter alternative you’re talking about.
A Lack of Users
There is a lack of users across the board when it comes to Twitter alternatives.
And yet, that’s not the case.
Mastodon is complicated with its decentralized servers and fragmentation of the user base.
Post hones in on journalists and commercial exploits, not really appealing to the average user.
Truth Social and GETTR are too politically oriented.
There is clearly a market for it, else there wouldn’t be so many alternative options available.
People could get annoyed with that and decide to move on to a more stable alternative.
For now, there are many reasons to stay on Twitter compared to its alternatives.
