Ask HN: Is there any social network you trust?

I'm not aware of anything with the breadth and discovery features of FB and without the disadvantages. Your phone's contacts list is probably the best compromise between privacy and ability to get in touch with old friends (I have 20+ years old contacts on it).

If you just want to be found, publish a personal web page, perhaps with an easy to find, SEO-friendly domain like firstnamelastname.info or similar. List your e-mail address there and people should be able to get in touch.

Telegram works well as my primary social tool.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that only distributed open source social networks can be trusted. I'm currently on Diaspora, which is pretty nice, though lacking in some features. I want to look into Hubzilla or Friendica, which have the advantage of being able to share with both Diaspora and Mastodon.

I know a lot of Google+ refugees moved to MeWe, and they have Tim Berners-Lee on their board and supposedly implement his Solid standard that lets users own their own data, but I have no idea what that means exactly; it's still a proprietary network.

I trust the social network on my telephone's contact list more than any other. If I want to find out how someone is doing, I can do so via messaging or calling. It's a service I pay for anyway, though you can get it for free if you have an old device that you have only hooked up to the internet via wifi rather than cellular data access.