I've also deleted my 13-year-old Twitter account. Now, I'm looking for alternative, reliable sources for information about the war that are open and not dependent on Twitter/X.

Some examples I've found (note: I have not followed all of these accounts for a long time, so use your judgment when evaluating them wrt reliability/accuracy):

Do you have others to recommend? Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I would also greatly value this please! Thank you :-)

[–] canadaduane 10 points 2 years ago

Here's another one I forgot to mention:

https://mstdn.social/@noelreports

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

@Ukraine_UA is run by @lusterko and is a pretty good source for current news.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

@[email protected]

Great summaries and live updates.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] is very good

I actually don't know how to link a Mastodon properly.

Same Account, but direct link: https://mastodon.online/@SocraticEthics

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That's also the same Mastodon account I am following for news updates on the war in Ukraine on my Mastodon.world account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I can add @[email protected] and @[email protected] (Note that the last one is fairly pro-russian, but good to corroborate reports of progress)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

https://lemmy.world/post/2664332

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I follow these:

Anne Applebaum @[email protected]
WarInTheFuture @[email protected]
ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_[email protected]
Tendar @[email protected]
OSINTtechnical @[email protected]
NOELREPORTS @[email protected]
MAKS 23 @[email protected]
War Mapper @[email protected]
Anders Puck Nielsen @[email protected]
Mark Hertling @[email protected]
Darth Putin @[email protected]
Putin @[email protected]

Will follow more after this thread! :)

But, IMHO, the best way to find your own sources is to explore by hashtags , like:

[https://mastodon.social/tags/ukraine]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

[email protected] is good too, shows map changes with arrows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can also follow the #Ukraine tag on Masto

[–] canadaduane 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I do this sometimes, but there are also some... not very reliable posts in there on occasion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FYI, Lemmy is just as much "fediverse" as Mastodon is. The term "fediverse" includes Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, Peertube, Pixelfed, and many more. So, your first paragraph kinda sounds like someone saying, "What Internet websites do you recommend (i.e. Wikipedia, not CNN)" Just thought you'd like to know.

[–] canadaduane 2 points 2 years ago

That's fair, I think we're all trying to understand this new Fediverse thing. I understand that the underlying ActivityPub protocol is the same, but people tend to use these frontends quite differently. For example, I can't downvote a Lemmy post in Elk (the software I use to follow other people). I also anticipate Lemmy posts to be more "community-oriented" in the way information is surfaced (like Reddit), whereas Mastodon is more focused on following a person or organization (like Twitter). There's no wrong way to use the technology, but I do find the use cases helpful in organizing my expectations.