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

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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.

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Their rationale was that SMS is not secure and having something not secure on their app was damaging.

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Yvan eht noij!

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MastaDon is the new TruthSocial app.

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This right here.

Look at the objective. The objective is to kill corporate sponsered social media. Well what better way to do that then by normalizing non corporate social media in the minds of the masses?

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I'm in need an open source and ethical Amazon alternative. Any ideas? It seems like every website I can order a box of varied goods from (Amazon, Walmart, Target) is owned by somebody who sucks off Trump on demand while somehow ending up paying Trump for it too.

Desert Hermit

It's Forbes - if they don't use an image in the thumbnail of a thing people know, they might as well not use anything. It's normie-facing.

Cyborganism

Big ups to @[email protected] for his contributions and congrats to him being mentioned in the article.

enkers

In what way is it insecure? If the user was going to message someone off platform they'd still be sending them an unencrypted message anyways if they have to switch apps to SMS. If users didn't understand the distinction, that's a design failure on signal's part.

To a lot of us, SMS fallback was the killer feature signal provided.

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They literally were not given any out (and were unwilling to take the one they had, or forgot they had it). People were complaining that SMS isn't secure even in Signal (when SMS by design can't be), which buils undue mistrust on the project, and Google is the one who controls all the keys to RCS so implementing that was not an option either.

The part where Signal dropped the ball hard is that they could just as well perfectly revived their old, perfectly functional SMS app with a new name and add it to the project,and thus be able to claim they still support SMS. Since SMS is pretty much a build-and-done for thing, it would barely if ever need any maintenance or updates.