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Re: HN. Let's share Twitter accounts

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I don't use Twitter because I don't want to support centralized social networks, but I publish to my website much the same as others use Twitter - short links, notes, occasional blog posts: http://minglis.id.au/ I post about technology, Australian politics, programming, privacy, and other generally interesting stuff. There are separate Atom feeds for each of the separate sections: links, notes or blog. I'll get aroun…

What's a good alternative to "centralized social networks"? Atom feed clients?

There are many good alternatives to centralized social networks:

Diaspora: https://diasporafoundation.org/ pump.io: http://pump.io/ GNUSocial: http://gnu.io/social/ Friendica: http://friendica.com/

Of course, you're bound to find a much geekier crowd here than twitter, G+, etc... but, that shouldn't matter too much to HN readers. ;)

Re: HN. Let's share Twitter accounts

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My space news website account: https://twitter.com/spaceindnews I post a few times a day at the most about space news, mainly astronomy.

Whoa... I got so many awesome suggestions from twitter after I followed you :) Thanks for that!

Glad I could help. I follow some very interesting and "nerdy" people :)

Re: HN. Let's share Twitter accounts

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post #46

I don't use Twitter because I don't want to support centralized social networks, but I publish to my website much the same as others use Twitter - short links, notes, occasional blog posts: http://minglis.id.au/ I post about technology, Australian politics, programming, privacy, and other generally interesting stuff. There are separate Atom feeds for each of the separate sections: links, notes or blog. I'll get aroun…

What's a good alternative to "centralized social networks"? Atom feed clients?

Hopefully twister takes off. http://twister.net.co/

Re: HN. Let's share Twitter accounts

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What's a good alternative to "centralized social networks"? Atom feed clients?

The web is a decentralized social network; everyone should have their own website, owning their data and content. Feeds (authenticated and public) can replicate the explicit social graphs of Twitter, Facebook et al. Regrettably, setting up a website is still too hard for most people - but it's never been easier, too. If you're reading Hacker News, you should be able to do it. Read the IndieWebCamp website for more: h…

I used to run my own website and blog all the time. Then I stopped and jumped onto the whole social media bandwagon, because i thought it would be easier and I lost my domain. Now i've gone completely in the opposite direction and decided to write my own framework for my own site and as a result I still don't blog but at least I have my very own half-baked framework.

Meanwhile i'm still surprised the 'independent web' is a thing. Like people 'rediscovering' static html sites. Makes me feel old.

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