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Alternatives to popular social media platforms, websites and services

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Re: Alternatives to popular social media platforms, websites and services

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"Facebook: Gab Until I found Gab, the Facebook was left without the alternative. I still have my Facebook and my Facebook page, and I tamper with Developers console there, but the actual social side of it died for me a long time ago. For some reason I find the Gab to be exactly what and where I want to be."

...so you're comfortable with being on a site that was founded by extreme right-wingers after Twitter kicked them off for being hatemongers? Well, have fun then.

Re: Alternatives to popular social media platforms, websites and services

#3

"Facebook: Gab Until I found Gab, the Facebook was left without the alternative. I still have my Facebook and my Facebook page, and I tamper with Developers console there, but the actual social side of it died for me a long time ago. For some reason I find the Gab to be exactly what and where I want to be." ...so you're comfortable with being on a site that was founded by extreme right-wingers after Twitter kicked th…

Oooooh nice poisoning of the well there. A fallacious stance on why there should be no alternative. But A for effort there, sport.

Re: Alternatives to popular social media platforms, websites and services

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"Facebook: Gab Until I found Gab, the Facebook was left without the alternative. I still have my Facebook and my Facebook page, and I tamper with Developers console there, but the actual social side of it died for me a long time ago. For some reason I find the Gab to be exactly what and where I want to be." ...so you're comfortable with being on a site that was founded by extreme right-wingers after Twitter kicked th…

Seems to be the endemic problem to all of these alternative social media platforms. See also reddit -> voat.

Mastadon (and the fediverse) seems to be trying to fight the nazi-flight problem. But they have their own problems that keeps it from being viable.