X (Twitter) alternatives?

[Delight]

The internet has degraded tremendously over my years of using it. I am not the only one noticing. But, what do we DO? Lately I am just so uninformed by looking at X, for instance. I am not sure where to quickly screen for current, relavant and "unbotted" news and opinions from people. I never used facebook. This forum is my first stop and IMO PA COULD become more significant if more people contributed.

It is also not possible any longer to lookup significant info on search engines. Also AI "grok" etc. apparently is unreliable so one must know how to use it.

What I am sure about now with X is that it presents absolute trash posts in my feed and more irritating, the same stupid posts appear again and again. Also, when I try to listen to "spaces", I am cut off continuously. Maybe this is because I am not "blue checked".

What do people who post here do to sieve for "sound information without "bots".

[Le Chat]

I don't do any social media nor X
Works for me....

[Open Minded Dude]

Posted by Le Chat (here)
I don't do any social media nor X
Works for me....

Same for me. Never did FB, don't do Twitter/X, Insta, TikTok, BlueSky, whatever.

I do YouTube though and have some channels subscribed to. Don't know though if YT counts as Social Media. Probably not.

I miss the 'old days' of the internet when things were more chaotic and Social Media did not even exist before MySpace started it (but was outdone by Facebook after a few years).

My Social Media always have been 'old-school' forums like this one. I also use a desktop PC and no smartphone so maybe this is a factor since these kind of messageboards are not trendy for smartphone users. It also has to do with the short-attention span posting that is normally done in modern Social Media and younger generations (dumbed down Gen-Z and following).

[norman]

Delight, I'm kinda surprised you've not mentioned looking within.

Nothing external is as pure. Once you commit to looking externally, you also have to commit to doing a max energy burn on soaking it ALL up. In Astrophotography they call it image stacking.

The censorship and A.I. distortions prohibit relying on that, so you might as well go back to checking things out internally, on the hot line.