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Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?
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Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?
#32I wanted to remove facebook, but i can't I will lose connections to friends I met outside my home country. Its kind of the internal person-service that i can't live without currently.
Agreed, and if I used an alternative I would have to spend hours searching on google, trying to import "iContacts" or whatever format into whatever other format when I change my pc, phone, loose all the data, or whatever might happen.
Its like downloading your email and organizing it into sub folders instead of using gmail.
Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?
#33A potentially messy way to use that zip file is to find the page with your contact info in a big HTML table. You can copy and paste that table from a web browser into a spreadsheet program, edit the data into a useful format, and then export it as CSV. The CSV file can be imported into a local or online mail app.
Outlook.com used to have a feature that would import your Facebook contacts directly. I can't find that feature in the current version of the site though. Yahoo.com still does have one. So you could make an account there, import your FB contacts, then export them as a CSV file.
Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?
#34Mastodon? It is decentralized. So, you can create your own instance and get everyone you know added to that instance.
Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?
#35Well, you could try: https://kuende.com - still not mature as a product, but not far from it
I'm part of the team, we are running a token sale somewhere around the next couple of months (https://ico.kuende.com I guess, given the current drivers within traditional social media and all the associated bull*t, we might have a shot at fulfilling our vision.
Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?
#36Scuttlebutt, a decentralized social network protocol. Currently a small niche community that is reminiscent of early internet communities.
Since it is a protocol, there are several clients that behave differently and you can create your own. ( https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/ )
Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?
#37While I am not a fan of Facebook myself for the all reasons recently talked about and the addicting nature of it, yes the self updating address book part is nice. Here's what I did: I got a Chrome extention[1] that unfollows all my friends. I've also unliked every Facebook Page that I used to like. This means my feed is now totally empty. When I login from anywhere there is nothing in my feed. Also I rarely ever get…
> [I unfollowed all my friends] [...] I still get to use it as a address book.
I'm not understanding something here. Is that an empty address book, or does FB allow you to still access the information of people you're no longer connected to? I was under the impression that the default information visible to folks not on your "Friends" list was pretty limited, which is why [Cambridge Analytica/Kogan] needed to use an app to scrape data from users' friends.
Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?
#38I use email and text message to keep in touch now. Or Telegram (funny how that has double meaning).
There is nothing I hate more then writing on my phone. In general I much prefer meeting someone face to face, but at least on my pc my keyboard it is much easier and faster to write a message.
There are apps that let you send SMSs from your PC. Telegram also has a desktop version.
Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?
#39Call a good friend for a coffee face to face. I quit Facebook months ago, and guess what, no one cared. I keep contact with REAL friends far away via email or Whatsapp. For local friends I use Whatsapp and meet in person. There is no NEED for a true Facebook replacement. But to be honest, I created a new account, with a fake name and won't add anyone to it. The goal is to track some events and key communities I like…
WhatsApp You know that's still Facebook, rrriiiight?
True, but it does have end-to-end encryption so their ability to leak or abuse your data is a lot more limited.
Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?
#40Surely the power of Facebook is in how the data they have on you can be used to influence you. That is, it's about what you are fed. You just need to be a conscientious consumer.