Looking for focused alternatives to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc Not just for myself but for my family members and friends who I wish to keep in touch with… any other threads going on about this? Maybe have a general thread and subsequent migration movements, we really need to act on this social life fascist monopoly we’ve became hostages to…

  • Parade du Grotesque@lemmy.sdf.org
    9·
    15 days ago

    What’s App : Signal.

    Instagram: Pixelfed

    TikTok: loops

    YouTube: peertube

    Xitter: Mastodon (pleroma, akkoma, etc …)

    Google maps: open street map

    Reddit: Lemmy 😉

    Google search: duck duck go, startpage

    I’ll let you Google the names of the different apps.

  • scoobford@lemmy.zip
    8·
    14 days ago

    Consult privacyguides.org for guidance regarding new messaging and email solutions. I imagine you’ll probably want to ask your family to sign up for signal.

    The only alternative to social media is the fediverse. The bad news is that the fediverse is not private. The good news is that frankly social media as a concept just isn’t mandatory, so if you need privacy, you can just…not. Once you break the addiction, you realize how unnecessary it all was.

    • courval@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      13 days ago

      Thanks for the suggestions, whats the issue in making pms within the fedivese e2e encrypted?

      • scoobford@lemmy.zip
        2·
        13 days ago

        Honestly I don’t know what the issue is on a technical level, I just know they are not encrypted and won’t be for the foreseeable future.

  • Subverb@lemmy.world
    3·
    15 days ago

    Why flock anywhere? Lemmy is the extent of my social media sine the reddit API changes.

    You don’t need social media.

    Remember… when you’re killing time it’s killing you back.

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    15 days ago

    90% of these apps are doing nothing good for you. You don’t need to replace them, you need to quit them and start touching grass. I’m also talking to myself here.

    Talking all day to people you never see physically is damaging your brain.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    2·
    14 days ago

    Facebook is a bad idea. All of those that link back to your real identity seem to get so bad so fast. I have never had one and just text people, email them, visit them in person. I don’t need everyone to know everything all the time and can’t understand why anyone does.

  • scoobford@lemmy.zip
    2·
    14 days ago

    Consult privacyguides.org for guidance regarding new messaging and email solutions. I imagine you’ll probably want to ask your family to sign up for signal.

    The only alternative to social media is the fediverse. The bad news is that the fediverse is not private. The good news is that frankly social media as a concept just isn’t mandatory, so if nobody signs up, you can just keep in contact with your friend and family using signal.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    1·
    15 days ago

    Mastodon, Pixelfed, Signal.

    Pixelfed is currently experiencing massive growth so that is a good Instagram alternative to focus on at the moment.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
      2·
      15 days ago

      Also, there’s loops.video for reels, since Pixelfed only does images. Loops is running on the Pixelfed platform, and there appear to be plans to integrate the two at some point further down the road.

      The biggest issue with Loops right now is that account verification emails seem to be sent out manually by the admins, so it can take a day or two to arrive after you initially create your account. And you can’t use the platform at all until that email arrives. So it’s not exactly the most friendly onboarding experience.

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    15 days ago

    Facebook: Friendica
    instagram: Pixelfed
    Whatsapp: Signal,Matrix

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    15 days ago

    Facebook: Delete it. Not necessary. I’ve had a happy and fulfilling life without ever going near that misery pit.

    Instagram: This is just Facebook again.

    WhatsApp: just learn or invent a coded language and use it to talk to family and friends.

  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
    01·
    15 days ago

    There’s a lot of decent Chinese alternatives, there’s a lot of decent fediverse alternatives, but other than that I’m not very sure

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
    01·
    15 days ago

    as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.

    George Orwell, 1944