As Twitter teeters on the brink of extinction, many of us are asking ourselves how we’re going to replace a social-media platform that had become integral to our publishing and promotion. Will the federated servers of Mastodon become the next Big Thing? Or will Twitter’s users flock to the email-newsletter platform Substack? Here’s a look at the major players and some thoughts on their overall potential.

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