I can vouch for Signal. I got my whole family out of facebook messenger to make a new place for family chat. Even my parents in their mid 60s had no problem changing.

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 hours ago

I can vouch for Matrix unfortunately it is not listed and instead they mentioned Signal which is further from the fediverse.

[–] teohhanhui@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

no one was actually on it

It might feel that way at first, but my Mastodon feed is very robust nowadays. You just need to follow more people.

[–] Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

People only move to Bluesky because they don't want to change their thinking (picking instances is hard!) and keep using "Twitter".

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

I can understand it. I was banned without reason from 3 of the top mastodon instances before even posting anything. Creating new accounts is a hassle, and it's easy to lose faith in the system when bans happen without reason and none of the instances cared to respond to my appeals. In heinsight, I'm sure the ban was due to my username looking like a hash, but I still find it crazy that the appeals were ignored.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

I've seen some authors I like on Mastodon, like William Gibson. It's a quieter place but I like that about it, as someone who never used Twitter.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

instead of switching ive mostly just been ditching entirely. I need less time interacting with internet people.

literally the only thing on this list im still using is facebook messenger, for my work colleagues. and youtube. everything else ive migrated (reddit-lemmy), or abandoned and torched

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Only ones I use are YouTube and fb marketplace because Craigslist is totally dead here, but it's from an alt account I've never used for anything at all.

[–] Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Check out Flohmarkt https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt Instance list here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

I will definitely check that out and try to use it before checking marketplace, but I honestly can't imagine I'll find anyone selling anything near me. I'm fairly rural, and even the nearest "city" isn't exactly a thriving metropolis.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 18 points 9 hours ago

I was already on Mastodon by just having a Vivaldi (the chromium browser) account, and it's just lovely I've spent most of the day setting up lemmy, even though I joined feddit.dk 2 years ago, it's only just now I'm taking it seriously.
And, while not related to the fediverse per se, I switched to linux a year ago.
The only service that's hard to drop/switch away from is Youtube imo.

[–] breadcat@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

I keep seeing this type stuff but neither peertube or friendica are genuine replacements at this point, mastodon is weaksauce compared to akkoma or a misskey fork, and loops is alpha software. also yes signal is centralized but it just works and has contact discovery so it owns matrix and xmpp when compared to whatsapp. basically none of this stuff is truly ready

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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Friendica seems like a new thing? No apps for that yet either

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 42 minutes ago

I heard that it was one of the earliest Fediverse projects. It just hadn't surged in popularity like Mastodon and Lemmy had after the Twitter and Reddit exodus.

[–] Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago

Bookface replicates the Facebook UI in Friendica :)

[–] MoreZombies@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

Raccoon

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

It's been here the a long time actually

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