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We’ve been running a steadily growing list of alternatives for that formerly bird-associated social network, and now that TikTok has added a text-only option, it’s become part of our inventory of 15 social networks vying for your attention. If you’re wondering where to go next, these are some interesting choices.

It just usually goes a lot better than it did with Substack’s Chris Best. For example, I really enjoyed this episode with Matt Mullenweg, who is the CEO of both Wordpress and Tumblr, which got pretty far down the path of where the rules should come from. Or here’s Jameel Jaffer, the executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, on how to properly regulate platforms. Maybe more than any podcast Decoder is the place to get all the way into the weeds of what various tradeoffs actually mean!

Post offers a chance to share and comment on new items from a variety of sources, including those behind firewalls, while Substack Notes now lets you write Twitter-like short entries (which may be one of the reasons Elon Musk is so pissed at it).

We’ve added them to our list of Twitter alternatives, which includes others such as Mastodon, Tumblr, and, yes, Facebook.

Tumblr has been using its polls creatively — and it seems the most popular poll option in almost any poll is “vanilla extract.” Okay!