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

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So get them on there.

"Hey dummies, this here is the place that isn't trying to fuck us, let's move it over."

For me the way bigger issue is clunkiness. The fediverse needs a massive push for UI, usability, intuitiveness. Not having that will turn people away, but part of what will get it to happen is more people showing up and saying "stop making this otherwise objective improvement so janky that I second guess coming here in the first place." Maybe a few will be inspired to help, if they have the skills.

To everybody working on the fediverse in any capacity: thank you. You are building a digital Noah's Ark for the future.

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I hope you're mean Crypto as in Cryptography

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Agreed.

However these ads need to be curated as well. This is the other thing that makes ads unbearable, is that a lot of them are just blatant scams.

I have learnt about proton and tuxedo from ads as well, which i use both.

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Luckily there are actually decentralized chat alternatives with low system requirements to encourage self-hosting, but man is Matrix so overhyped & misunderstood.

Thank you for the illuminating post. Could you name a few alternatives that better align with the ethos of the fediverse?

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I agree to an extent, I'm tired of reddit spamming me with ads for Database management systems while I'm on vacation

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I wish I could get everyone to use it but many of my friends are having trouble with notifications not working reliably for Signal. Or sometimes messages are simply not sent immediately, even if both sides are online. This is not helping to get people over. Also no one but me really cares about all the reasons why I would like to get rid of Whatsapp, especially if they would have a lesser experience.

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My experience is that nobody cares about privacy, moral issues or anything that might be an issue in the future. They only care about convenience, distraction and whatever their peer group is doing. So the "attention" this is getting is never going to reach the spineless mass audience.

Matt

Sup

Signal is better as a centralized alternative and Matrix is better as a decentralized alternative. We don't need another messenger.

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I think the weirdest thing I ever saw him do was discuss meeting with Meta when they were working on Threads, get called out for it so he made a post somehow distancing himself from it and saying something along the lines of, "C'mon, guys; I'd never cozy up to Meta," and then, when Threads started federating, posted a screenshot of being able to see a post from a Threads account from PixelFed and gushing about how incredible this was.

Dude is suspect, for real; glad to see I'm not the only one getting that.

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XMPP for reliable, lightweight, & stable. SimpleX is a project worth keeping tabs on as well.

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I've been getting into the fediverse for less than a month, and it seems the biggest barrier for a newcomer like me is settling on a select few out of many clients/apps. One question I think a lot of people migrating want to know is (and I open this up to anyone):

What's the fewest signups needed if we want to enjoy all of the federated replacements to corporate social media? It sounds like each client demands its own account but I'm wondering where/if there's overlap, because…

My Lemmy account already worked on movim before i discovered movim. That's really cool but I don't know 100% how that worked (same community server, I think), and how many other apps/clients offer that.

Movim is XMPP and I don't know how that overlaps with ActivityPub, but I want to better understand so that I know how few accounts are necessary so I can micro and macro blog, share original/repost images videos and music, have group communities, and have a personal page to post things on as opposed to thread/conversations/forum posts and not have to manage ten separate accounts if I can help it

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Why does it have to be about privacy? Why can't it be about not centralizing power into a handful of for-profit entities?

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"Hey guys, maybe we shouldn't use a name that's so easily misspelled by normal people." - words that are never said among free software circles

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This is where „… or anything that might be an issue in the future“ comes in.