#1 alternative is Twitter, the only mainstream social network more toxic than Facebook.
Another interesting alternative is to connect them https://2fb.me
Oh, god, no. Please no.
Facebook Alternatives
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Re: Facebook Alternatives
#52#1 alternative is Twitter, the only mainstream social network more toxic than Facebook.
The best alternative to Twitter, an utter shitstorm at times, is Mastodon: https://mastodon.social
Re: Facebook Alternatives
#53What problem are these "alternatives" addressing? If I'm concerned about privacy and data sharing, Twitter, Snapchat, and Tumblr don't seem like good candidates.
Agree.. Are there any major social app that you can absotely trust your private data with?
Diaspora and Mastodon are good alternatives (but are ironically not on this list). Both are federated solutions that let you set up your own instances, or use public ones.
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#54You can always list alternatives for Facebook, but the problem comes in actually replacing it. Facebook isn't popular for being a well designed website, if you think about it, Facebook is a very bloated and clunky experience. Facebook is popular because that's what everyone uses.
I think the issue isn't about finding alternatives to it, it's convincing the people completely entangled in the Facebook ecosystem why they should jump ship. Another issue comes with, a number of people don't use Facebook, but they use Instagram, which is just a rebranding of the same evil at this point. Getting people to switch from that would prove tough.
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I enjoyed Aether, until I noticed my backup job was very busy with a few directories, and saw that Aether created a bazillion tiny files, even just deleting them all took a while on a SSD. If that ever changes, I might try it again, but since I never saw it mentioned as an issue that will be done properly later, I'm not holding my breath.
Huh I haven't noticed that myself. I'm using it on OSX. The dude who runs it is pretty personable. You should mention it to him if you find the time.
I know, he's really great, and I've been meaning to say something on the forums about this.. I'll make the time.
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It is quite different being racist and being concerned about safety.
Yes but on Ring neighbors for example, it seems most of the “concerns” are just people walking up to the door while having pigment in their skin. Usually it’s obvious they’re doing door to door sales or the like, but the comments imply something is amiss.
I don't know.
I tend to avoid such generalizations. I lived in an unsafe neighborhood and saw people do what they can to improve their situation, with poor if any help from government. Call them racist seems unfair and totally misunderstanding their problem.
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#57This list could use substantially better editing. "Google Allo" should not be one of the alternatives for messaging, given that Google has announced its shutdown. eBay should be on the list of Marketplaces. And how are Digg and Tumblr alternatives to Facebook? Ultimately, I don't think it's helpful to most users to throw a smorgasbord of possible vaguely-related alternatives at them. A more useful resource would be t…
Almost every post about facebook has been marginally informative or complete nonsense. And yet, I see them here everyday. I keep wondering why?
"deletefacebook" is just so blinded by agenda that they can't see the list they provide actually makes facebook look good in comparison to everything they listed. Rather than getting facebook users to leave, it'll make them value facebook even more since there aren't any better alternatives - according to "deletefacebook".
They might as well create "QuitYourProgrammingJob.wiki" and then offer the following alternatives - coal miner, septic tank cleaner, bedpan replacer.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is quite different being racist and being concerned about safety.
Yes but on Ring neighbors for example, it seems most of the “concerns” are just people walking up to the door while having pigment in their skin. Usually it’s obvious they’re doing door to door sales or the like, but the comments imply something is amiss.
>Usually it’s obvious they’re doing door to door sales or
This is a common tactic to identify if someone is home or not and to look for packages to grab, if not an attempt to social engineering credit card or checking info.
Re: Facebook Alternatives
#59Digg?
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#60What problem are these "alternatives" addressing? If I'm concerned about privacy and data sharing, Twitter, Snapchat, and Tumblr don't seem like good candidates.
Agree.. Are there any major social app that you can absotely trust your private data with?
There have been some attempts in France to create some more trustfully social networks based on open-source software and decentralized paradigm.
Here some of them:
- Movim, a kind of XMPP-based social network: https://movim.eu/
- Accounts for Mastodon and Diaspora instances from Framasoft by its "De-google-ify Internet" initiative: https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/list#tag-social
- Other ethical hosts defined by the KITTENS/CHATONS chart (full translation in English in progress): https://chatons.org/en
Be aware, even if you can self-hosting your own accounts, you have to consider how your "friend's" accounts are hosted.