Here is a really cool curation of fediverse-related platforms that I learned about prior to cancelling #reddit.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Instead of livejournal, I wrote my own blogging software in PHP.
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.
Reddit - Lemmy Discord - Matrix Texting - Signal/RCS Twitter - Mastodon
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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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
Threads doesn't count. It's Meta and hard linked to an Instagram account.
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
It took my until this year to finally disable my Facebook account - my Instagram has been disabled for a while. If it stays disabled for at least six months, Iβll finally delete it.
Why? Itβs very hard to convince friends from around the world to all switch platforms when there is no major draw and most people are NOT on the new platform.
I donβt like Zoom or Teams, but there are cases in which you are forced to do so in order to interact remotely with certain customers or businesses.
It took months and multiple people to convince one of my more tech savvy friends to switch to signal.
Sure, I can make the switch. But is it worth the hassle?
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.
To be honest, I don't really know much about the people behind either of these sites. That being said, Jester is pretty active on CoSo. I originally gave CoSo a try because Twitter was beginning to go downhill and I was looking for an alternative. I tried a few, CoSo had a lot of neat features and impressed me enough that I was even willing to pay the 4.99/month for the "Pro Account".
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As for this site (kbin.social), I was looking for a Reddit alternative. This site reminds me of what Reddit used to be and, for that reason, looked better than Reddit does these days. I known nothing of Lemmy and had never even heard of it (him?) before finding this site.
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In both cases, you just don't see the bot-farm-generated trolling that loads up the mainstream sites. The stuff that's just out there to get us arguing with each other. Also nice to not see endless ads. Maybe not completely free of trolls, etc., but, since it's not as prevalent, it's easier to filter out.