‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media

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Impressive that a site like Forbes is writing about the Fediverse. A small step to helping it into the mainstream.

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I know ads are very hated here, but I wouldn't be against an ad at a reasonable cadence to increase sustainability. Then create a pro version that gets rid of ads that's like $2-5 a month or $30 a year.

The sync app got so much hate for having ads during the original migration, but a lot of us here are devs and we should definitely get paid for our effort and be able to maintain our infrastructure without our of pocket money.

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Yeah I think this is a very important point.

I think people will need to learn to accept that there is no such thing as "free". The current social media sells you to advertisers, taking every bit of data they can get.

So for independent and privacy focused social media, we're going to have to accept we have to pay for it.

I've moved to paying for my email, my file storage, my VPN and my password manager - all for privacy and security. I pay for subscriptions for streaming to avoid advertising. So I would pay for social media.

In the early days of the internet, people accepted paying for things but then the "free" model came along. The fediverse will need to persuade people to pay for it. That may limit it from being the big everyone social medial, but it could be able to become to the high quality version of social media that people pay for.

enkers

I was pissed at Signal for dropping SMS support. Their rationalisation was kinda bs. Now I just use matrix instead, since it's decentralised.

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Email alias?

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Can you guys help me: I have Facebook and instagram which isn't great. Never got twitter or tiktok and I'm very glad about that. If I get bluesky will I end up using instagram and Facebook less or just get addicted to another regretful thing? What's it actually like?

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No mention of Lemmy. Hardly a mention of Mastodon. The leading image is all the oligarch apps. I'm not impressed.

Carighan Maconar

Not too be confused with the Masturbatron.

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get our there and mention lemmy ppl here dont even want that site to grow

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Yes masta

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Venture capital doesn't benefit you any more than a leach benefits you

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I joined Pixelfed yesterday, the Instagram alternative. I wasn't really active on IG and haven't logged in in years, but Pixelfed seems solid. The glaring issue though is that none of my friends use it, so it's just a personal photo for now, but hopefully that will change.

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I've been on ethical alternatives for social media for a while and the one thing missing is just everyone I know

I tried to create an account days ago and never got a confirmation email, which server did you make your account?

Ulrich

That's a last resort for me, personally.

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Hitching on the wagon that Pixelfed is leading is good. There's a lot of talk even from those who don't care about FOSS, or Fediverse projects. Let's give some credit and let things slide so the whole can succeed.

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Yeah, I don't mind Pixelfed getting attention at all. It's just that I don't trust Forbes, and this article seems to want to muddy the waters.

Cyborganism

Well it sure benefited a lot of new tech projects and companies.

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Metapixl and signup was instant for me.

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And the ads... There is a correlation there I'm sure.