What's the issue with WhatsApp? I thought it was great for privacy.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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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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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.
Lemmy = reddit Newpipe = YouTube Mastodon = news/twitter
Unless the communities you visit move, itβd be very difficult to move entirely.
This applies to discord especially.
Theyβre more of a compliment to the other social networks in many cases
Yup. Reddit is 100% gone but Discord remains used for me
convincw friends by saying no nitro there
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.
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.
reddit+instagram -> lemmy π€
I tried Tumblr as a replacement for reddit for a while, but I'm just not really cut out for microblogging, so I came to lemmy.
Instead of livejournal, I wrote my own blogging software in PHP.
Here is a really cool curation of fediverse-related platforms that I learned about prior to cancelling #reddit.
It's time to use session over Signal
I never got anyone to use Signal!
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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Reddit - Lemmy Discord - Matrix Texting - Signal/RCS Twitter - Mastodon
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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I think this site and Counter.Social are working out to be my primary online haunts these days...
How would you describe counter.social? I read through their home page and like a lot of what they're saying but im not sure if its like Discord or Twitter or something more akin to Lemmy? I'd rather follow communities over individuals and it kind of looks like you follow people but I can't be sure.
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Facebook - None Messenger - Signal Discord - Discord Twitter - N/A Instagram - None Skype / Zoom - Discord / Teams
Revolt is foss discord, teams should be replacwd but depends on your use case
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Out of the open platforms, I use:
Reddit: Lemmy, Beehaw, Kbin
Twitter: Mastodon, Calckey
Facebook: idk nothing really plus I don't even use Facebook that much anymore
I may occasionally use proprietary ones like Twitter, Tumblr and Threads.
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