I have discovered Flare - it’s an awesome social media aggregator for ipad / iphone:
It’s a bit wonky feeling (because its using cross platform kotlin instead of native swift), but it’s actually really good. It’s slightly ridiculous you have to do so much work to post onto multiple platforms in the current federated dystoposphere but if I can find an active community as large and as accessible at the current https://x.com/cryptovoxels then I’ll be able to give up on X for good.
I can’t at the moment because there is too much signal there, and the only competing platform is threads, which I don’t want to use either.
Being on the internet without using the huge platforms is hard, not gonna lie. But it’s like when your vegetarian girlfriend comes and stays and you make delicious vegetarian food, you make better food. I spend more time thinking about my food, I care more, it’s (possibly) cheaper, it’s yummier and healthier.
If you have a reason to do the harder thing, it’s way more delicious.