Happy #GlobalSwitchDay
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Interesting — I hadn't considered it that way.
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For the avid readers out there, bookwyrm is a fantastic alternative to goodreads.
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This isn't helping.
Help with what?
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Yes, it isn't federated, but you can host your own server for your community. That way you are independent of any central organization.
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Fediverse is awesome!!
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People only move to Bluesky because they don't want to change their thinking and keep using "Twitter".
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Bookface replicates the Facebook UI in Friendica
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Multi-protocol would be awesome, hopefully down the line it'll come back around to adding some basic AP integration.
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I can vouch for Signal. I got my whole family out of facebook messenger to make a new place for family chat. Even my parents in their mid 60s had no problem changing.
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People only move to Bluesky because they don't want to change their thinking and keep using "Twitter".
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I've seen some authors I like on Mastodon, like William Gibson. It's a quieter place but I like that about it, as someone who never used Twitter.
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no one was actually on it
It might feel that way at first, but my Mastodon feed is very robust nowadays. You just need to follow more people.
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Are you from the global south? Because it's still a common thing for SMS to be chargeable in many countries. And no one should be using SMS anyway. It's horribly insecure. At least use RCS.
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but it is not federated. that would be matrix
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I can vouch for Matrix unfortunately it is not listed and instead they mentioned Signal which is further from the fediverse.
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Switching from WhatsApp to any other messaging service isn't a realistic option for quite many places. I'd be more than willing to switch but of all the people in my contacts (including my entire customer base) there's like 3 people using Signal but every single one of them has WhatsApp. Even the 60+ year olds.
I would say it's a step by step work. I have moved my family from Whatsapp to Signal years ago and then to Matrix. I forced them in some way but I just said "sorry if you want to keep contact we will have to find another app, I don't accept Whatsapp ToS." It took some time but my close family and friends are there and I regularly get someone to join, friend or family. It's still close circle but it's also a good thing.
Same went with work. Colleagues wanted to do a whatsapp group for a project and I basically said "No, best I can do is Signal." and they went with it. -
You think? I consider these memes more like a reminder of our global to-do list. It doesn't mean we can't selfhost a matrix server at the same time.
