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Alternative Social Media Platforms (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hello recently i deleted my facebook and im looking for good decent alternatives for facebook what options are there?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Problem is if social media is being used to stay in contact with friends / family then you are stuck with where they are, as they generally don't move to a new network with you. If it is for news etc, I actually prefer a good selection of RSS feeds that I follow in my RSS reader.

I'm on lots of different social networks for blogging and although MeWe has my far biggest followings, it is centralised and non-FOSS - it's the site I've also had the most troll issues on. The Fediverse (numerous site services to choose from) has the most potential, being open and federated widely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Speaking as a non-Meta user for the past several years, I just centre my interactions around people who use the various forms of social media (mostly open source and no FB / insta etc) ...

If people fall out of touch because they don't want to move away from Meta, they're not people I want to spend my time talking to. A degree of stubbornness is required, but eventually I've found sufficient interactions are possible on more desirable platforms, and I don't miss Meta at all, nor the people I left behind there.