What's the issue with WhatsApp? I thought it was great for privacy.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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the only thjng good is the messages and calls are alledgely encrypted, literally every other detail they know. live location? entire contact list? how frequently you text someone? etc etc
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I recently came across https://pixelfed.org/ for an Instagram replacement. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but it looks promising. Seems like a federated platform like Lemmy/Mastodon that's geared towards photo sharing.
Lemmy = reddit Newpipe = YouTube Mastodon = news/twitter
I tried Tumblr as a replacement for reddit for a while, but I'm just not really cut out for microblogging, so I came to lemmy.
Here is a really cool curation of fediverse-related platforms that I learned about prior to cancelling #reddit.
Instead of livejournal, I wrote my own blogging software in PHP.
Mastodon (specifically mstdn.ca). Lemmy.ca, pixelated (though I rarely use it like I should) and I'm hoping to soon get a tilvids account to document my progress modelling for X-plane and creating the assets for my own computer board game.
It's time to use session over Signal
I never got anyone to use Signal!
I would use session with people I meet on the internet. For my family, they are too entrenched in other chat services for me to be able to move. When I root my mobile I will put these apps in the workspace.
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reddit+instagram -> lemmy ๐ค
Reddit - Lemmy Discord - Matrix Texting - Signal/RCS Twitter - Mastodon
So far, testing out platforms.
- Mastodon was fairly good as a combo platform IMO
- Lemmy which seems really promising, getting used to the layout
- Threads is like Twitter and is Facebook, so
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Reddit with Lemmy and WhatsApp with Signal. I still use Reddit and WhatsApp but i would miss out on to much if i cut the ties. I have LinkedIn but i'm not really using it. Does YouTube count as social media?