Are there viable alternatives to Twitter?

I'm building https://sqwok.im

Just posted it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31160302

I still don't get what Twitter's value proposition is. What do you get out of it as a consumer?

I remember how Twitter started. It was this obscure alternative to RSS feeds, that many news channels suddenly started pushing (why?). I remember how they would actively include a segment in nightly news on talking about what has been posted on Twitter, back when it wasn't really anything newsworthy. It did not seem like organic growth to me.

I'm not endorsing it at all, but on Twitter at the moment people seem to be talking about https://counter.social

Depends, what you want in the alternative that Twitter is lacking, or what's on Twitter that you don't want on the alternative?

I use Mastodon as a secondary social network. But way less than Twitter

Mastodon, scuttlebutt

Other than Facebook and Instagram, There are no serious or viable alternatives to Twitter

but why?

I don't understand why people are upset with Elon's takeover

Supposing this is about Elon Musk buying twitter, what specifically are you afraid of?

Today’s Twitter is left wing biased and a vast purveyor of false information. Musk can’t make it any worse.