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Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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Well, 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.

It looks and feels like Instagram. Is it decentralized running on Ethereum?

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#52

Call 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…

I have many friends from Egypt, China, Brazil and other places but I live in Germany. If I visit Egypt in 2 years for some reason I want to shoot a message to my friends there to meet them for "a coffee face to face". There is no better service then facebook to enable this.

Email, text, phone call, all better messaging services than Facebook.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#53

Call 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…

I have many friends from Egypt, China, Brazil and other places but I live in Germany. If I visit Egypt in 2 years for some reason I want to shoot a message to my friends there to meet them for "a coffee face to face". There is no better service then facebook to enable this.

This has been discussed before; "better" != "only".

If the target is to have a contact, an email or a phone number are sufficient.

Also, it's fallacious to think that emails/phones are subject to change, while a Facebook account isn't - some people close it. Especially emails nowadays are used for a lot of services, so people stick with them for a long time, more than the past.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#54

Well, 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.

lol @ the ico, why would a centralized company require a blockchain?

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#55

While 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…

You cited the extension but did not link it. I'm interested in it. Could you provide the link?

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-unfollow-everyone-on-Facebook...

I've used the script provided by the top answer here before and it worked! No need for an extension (I don't know if it still works however).

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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I 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.

You can always send them a message asking for their email addresses or phone numbers before deleting your account.

I imported all of my Facebook contacts into https://www.monicahq.com/, which delightfully enough, I found during a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have many friends from Egypt, China, Brazil and other places but I live in Germany. If I visit Egypt in 2 years for some reason I want to shoot a message to my friends there to meet them for "a coffee face to face". There is no better service then facebook to enable this.

Email, text, phone call, all better messaging services than Facebook.

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Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#58
post #54

Well, 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.

lol @ the ico, why would a centralized company require a blockchain?

Indeed, that would be hilarious. What we are working on is a semi-decentralized product, with a core part (that of challenges) being on blockchain and two tokens governing the ecosystem (details about the mechanics are in the whitepaper and on the ico site)

Users can create, curate and participate in challenges. And they are incentivized to do so through gamification. For all that, they can earn tokens and keep the fun running.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#59

Well, 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.

It looks and feels like Instagram. Is it decentralized running on Ethereum?

Part of it is decentralized, the challenges module. Planning to move further on decentralizing more and more of the product (during the past 3 years we developed it in a centralized manner), but its not that practical now, given the fact that we need storage, tons of micro-transactions with 0 fees for the end user.

So, yes, using Ethereum blockchain, not fully decentralzied, and we might switch to a dPOS blockchain in the near future (if EOS, SMT succeed).

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But they get all your location data. They'll know that you met for coffee.
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