I will never understand why people still cling to this platform
I don’t have a Twitter account, but there isn’t really anything else comparable for when there’s a major incident, like a natural disaster. Random people from all over post video or relevant information, and Twitter’s search engine and hashtags are a pretty potent tool for connecting them quickly.
The Reddit or Threadiverse model isn’t really great for that – that uses pre-established communities.
I also don’t use Mastodon, but my understanding is that there isn’t a search engine there with the same instant global visibility as Twitter. If you want to follow individuals, I suppose it’s fine for that, but that’s really not something that I’m generally interested in doing. And it looks like Mastodon only even got full-text search very recently, like, last couple months.
At least for my use case, the Threadiverse is a much better replacement for Reddit than Mastodon is for Twitter.