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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It's mostly better than twitter, in that it actually functions reasonably well, and it's obviously considerably worse than Mastodon (especially compared to the Ivory app)
Their competition is with Twitter. They are not competing with Mastodon (atleast for now).
True, this is just from my own perspective, and I use Mastodon.
Can’t believe you pay a subscription to use a proprietary mastodon app
Are you saying twitter doesn’t function well? In what way? I’m not a massive twitter user but have never had a problem on the iOS app.
The app has become a lot buggier in my experience, but most concerning of all is the ability to read tweets at all is being restricted: https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-does-twitter-rate-limit-exceeded-mean-users-2023-07-03/