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Re: Facebook Alternatives

#41

I still wish Signal would allow you to register with just a username or email. One thing I liked about Wire more than Signal, but even less people I'm likely to meet will be using Wire vs Signal, which is already rare enough.

Yes! I have an older iPhone which can't be upgraded, so it can't install new apps...so I can't use Signal.

Re: Facebook Alternatives

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Not op but an example is to see what links people are clicking, so op can move popular alternatives to the top of the list. Or identify if a lot of users from (ex. India) are visiting and can provide local options for them.

You can do all that from log files.

It's easier to do with GA

Re: Facebook Alternatives

#43

Well Nextdoor is a perfect alternative for all your racist relatives who just want to rant about poor people moving into their neighborhood. My whole family has accounts in several different areas of Pittsburgh and most of the posts are people taking pictures of someone walking past their house or parking on their street and asking "Does anyone know this guy? Does he even live here? I think they're planning on breaki…

I joined Nextdoor thinking it would be cool to meet with local programmers and computer hobbyists. My first red flag was that apparently things involving computers are not a hobby in nextdoor. The second red flag was that it told me my community "needed" me to invite one other person before I even got to the feed - what? You could skip it but I would absolutely not have known based on the language used. Finally, I got to the feed and... It sucked. It felt like it was all just NIMBYs, but even then it felt dead and lacking any decent content.

Frankly, I can't believe this app exists.

Re: Facebook Alternatives

#44

Well Nextdoor is a perfect alternative for all your racist relatives who just want to rant about poor people moving into their neighborhood. My whole family has accounts in several different areas of Pittsburgh and most of the posts are people taking pictures of someone walking past their house or parking on their street and asking "Does anyone know this guy? Does he even live here? I think they're planning on breaki…

It is quite different being racist and being concerned about safety.

I strongly suspect that the vast majority of racists, deep deep inside, are just worried about safety.

Re: Facebook Alternatives

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Does she use Etsy by chance? Seems like the big place for that kind of thing.

She actually started on Etsy, but it basically paid nothing. Perhaps, the markets are just extremely fickle, but he following is primarily on Instagram and Facebook. She's trying to break into Youtube just to increase exposure, which I think is going reasonably well.

Yeah unless your product is super unique, you still need to market outside of Etsy is the vibe I get. That's good, yeah YouTube and IG are pretty good for those kinda things, not sure of some of the other ones out there that are common for influencers. Might be worth looking at where people are getting paid to be influencers on and that might be a trail worth following.

Re: Facebook Alternatives

#46

Well Nextdoor is a perfect alternative for all your racist relatives who just want to rant about poor people moving into their neighborhood. My whole family has accounts in several different areas of Pittsburgh and most of the posts are people taking pictures of someone walking past their house or parking on their street and asking "Does anyone know this guy? Does he even live here? I think they're planning on breaki…

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.

Re: Facebook Alternatives

#48
I would find it helpful to also have listed the sites' revenue models. Advertising-based funding is an Achilles' heel apparently easily exploited by groups with coherent goals... Those sites that use donation models (especially anonymous sourced) seem to be more healthy, especially if said sites suddenly come under the glare of the latest "unacceptable of the moment" meme.

De-platforming seems to be a powerful tool for censorship.

Re: Facebook Alternatives

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Does she use Etsy by chance? Seems like the big place for that kind of thing.

She actually started on Etsy, but it basically paid nothing. Perhaps, the markets are just extremely fickle, but he following is primarily on Instagram and Facebook. She's trying to break into Youtube just to increase exposure, which I think is going reasonably well.

Email is a very solid way of maintaining contact with the people who are interested in your products, so I would encourage her to put strong emphasis on building a list if she hasn't already.

This could be helpful in the event that another channel fails.

Re: Facebook Alternatives

#50
Alternative to what, exactly? I can email updates of my life to family pretty easily. No ads, totally free, private, supports replies, images, whatever really.

This is what my family who never joined Facebook did. We all just send everybody email updates once a month. No need to see ads or Grandma's racist reposts every day!

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