Reading the comments here it seems that people are missing the point by just joining one of those instances.<p>It is not about just using some alternative to Twitter, the real advantage begins when you host it yourself so that you can own your own content and post whatever you want (not what some company wants you to) and (perhaps) syndicate to other services like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.<p>I just gave a small talk about all this last week: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jeena.net&#x2F;media&#x2F;2016&#x2F;IndieWeb-Jeena.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jeena.net&#x2F;media&#x2F;2016&#x2F;IndieWeb-Jeena.pdf</a>