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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I recently came across https://pixelfed.org/ for an Instagram replacement. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but it looks promising. Seems like a federated platform like Lemmy/Mastodon that's geared towards photo sharing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (12 children)

What's the issue with WhatsApp? I thought it was great for privacy.

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

the only thjng good is the messages and calls are alledgely encrypted, literally every other detail they know. live location? entire contact list? how frequently you text someone? etc etc

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unless the communities you visit move, it’d be very difficult to move entirely.

This applies to discord especially.

They’re more of a compliment to the other social networks in many cases

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

Same. I've stopped with Reddit since I've never posted there with my real name. No one knew me personally, and I didnt know anyone personally, so my switch to kbin was easy.

My real-life family and friends use Discord, Instagram, Messenger, Twitter, Viber, and WhatsApp, so I'll continue to at least have accounts on those.

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

Yup. Reddit is 100% gone but Discord remains used for me

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

convincw friends by saying no nitro there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Mastodon (specifically mstdn.ca). Lemmy.ca, pixelated (though I rarely use it like I should) and I'm hoping to soon get a tilvids account to document my progress modelling for X-plane and creating the assets for my own computer board game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy = reddit Newpipe = YouTube Mastodon = news/twitter

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

Instead of livejournal, I wrote my own blogging software in PHP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's time to use session over Signal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never got anyone to use Signal!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would use session with people I meet on the internet. For my family, they are too entrenched in other chat services for me to be able to move. When I root my mobile I will put these apps in the workspace.

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

Just kbin and discord, I have no other social media.

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

Here is a really cool curation of fediverse-related platforms that I learned about prior to cancelling #reddit.

https://github.com/machawk1/awesome-selfhosted

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

reddit+instagram -> lemmy πŸ€‘

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

Reddit - Lemmy Discord - Matrix Texting - Signal/RCS Twitter - Mastodon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit with Lemmy and WhatsApp with Signal. I still use Reddit and WhatsApp but i would miss out on to much if i cut the ties. I have LinkedIn but i'm not really using it. Does YouTube count as social media?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So far, testing out platforms.

  • Mastodon was fairly good as a combo platform IMO
  • Lemmy which seems really promising, getting used to the layout
  • Threads is like Twitter and is Facebook, so
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Facebook - None Messenger - Signal Discord - Discord Twitter - N/A Instagram - None Skype / Zoom - Discord / Teams

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Revolt is foss discord, teams should be replacwd but depends on your use case

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