What replacement for each major social media do you use
As I see it:
Reddit - Lemmy Discord - Revolt Twitter - Mastodon Snapchat / Whatsapp - Signal ? Instagram - No replacement to my knowledge Skype / Zoom - Jitsi
etc etc
I don't personally use it but pixelfed is an Instagram type of site. It's part of the fediverse as well.
Can I use this login for that site or do I need a new account?
You'd need to create another account, pixelfed is currently working on a "login with mastodon" feature that will probably be released pretty soon, but even with that you're still technically creating another account, you'll just be able to log into it using a mastodon account and copy your bio, profile pic, follows, and things like that if you want.
But yeah, there's nothing for lemmy
They are working on mastodon integration
Always a new account with Federation
They are working on mastodon integration
i even found out the other day that pixelfed does stories and live streaming!
though those things are based on reading the configuration settings in documentation, so i have no idea what those features are like….
also worth noting that as usually with fediverse platforms, pixelfed data is accessible from other platforms like mastodon
ie you can retoot a pixelfed post afaik, and i believe that at least in kbin that means you can have a threaded conversion about a pixelfed post?
Lemmy fulfills a sort of reddit/more intimate internet forum thing. Reddit's real social good was fixing shitty search engine results by using Reddit as a keyword, and for centralizing a lot of hobbyist discussion. Lemmy and the lemmylikes will get there as the platform matures.
I'm loving pixelfed as a sort of Imgur substitute tbh. Quick and easy image hosting for when I post on here. Not crazy about Instagram as a social media platform so there's nothing I need pixelfed to do besides let me host medium-sized images, caption them and copy the link.
For imgur check out Catbox. I haven't used it person, but it might be closer to imgur than pixelfed which is supposed to be an IG replacement.
I feel that currently Lemmy may be less web searcheable compared to Reddit, since the domain names aren't consistent. I mean not every instance's domain's are named with lemmy. sopuli.xyz, programming.dev, technics, reddthat etc. I haven't tested it tho.
Someone that is good with SEO could create a read-only instance that federates with every available instance to help with that
Check out Pixelfed for an Instagram replacement. Seems to fill the same sort of use case
I've tried it but the content is more like what Flickr used to be it's all artistic photography, which I guess is fine if that's what you're into but I couldn't find much else.
I only used reddit as my big social media and then discord for messaging. Fediverse has become a good alternative to reddit, but discord will be hard to convince people to move over to alternatives like matrix or revolt.
Why are people trying to replace Discord? Just for the sake of federation or..?
Discord has been rolling out terrible features lately instead of improving the already existing ones. Messages still aren't E2EE and third-party clients are against TOS.
For me its because of privacy.
Discord being proprietary should be reason enough to try to replace it
For a non federated option I love guilded
I assume people who are looking to try to use all FOSS for social media/chat platforms
revolt is foss discord, no nitro there
I was only ever really into Reddit, which Lemmy has handily replaced.
I do use Discord, but mainly because all my friends and family are on there. I would love if a federated alternative like Matrix became the standard. Hopefully the EU's Digital Markets Act will help - if I understand it correctly, Discord and other platforms will be forced to allow seamless bridges (which currently will get you banned) under interoperability requirements.
Lemmy is a given, since I'm fairly active here.
I've been using Mastodon even if I was never a Twitter user. (Or at least, not a serious user. I had an account some time ago, as I was dating a girl who posted there often and she insisted that I should use it.)
I've been trying to convince people to migrate from Whatsapp to Signal. Easier said than done due to network effect.
I only ever used Reddit. Now I'm here.
Unless you count Steam Friends and actual text messages sent via SMS as social media.
ew sms please use signal
Not the one you replied to but, I would if I could. I have like 3 friends on signal. Can't get anyone to move.
Around 2005 Europeans used SMS quite often while the US didn’t seem to use it at all. Then a few years later it was all done by WhatsApp since it was more or less for free. And now we’re having blue/green bubble discussions.
Have we gone full circle and are using actual SMS again?
I host my own private "Facebook" for my large family. The web app is called HumHub and it's free to use (though some premium add-ons are paid).
@jackpot@lemmy.ml @asklemmy@lemmy.ml Replacement for Instagram is @pixelfed@mastodon.social 👍
Trying to replace reddit on PC but this place still isn't great for gaming and wrestling and niche games i'm currently into. I do enjoy it on my phone though, also tagged back in Somethingawful on my phone also for some nice reading of some classic threads and PYF stuff.
Other than that, no need to replace anything otherwise :)
I have been on SA a bunch lately too. 13 years later and I still don't understand FYAD.
Same, but get a good thread or two under your belt and you're hooked. I'm currently reading about some fellow Englishman building a new house and it's very good with the humor and photos: 'Towards an L shape architecture: a ham flavoured soakaway system'
Give it a read, funny shit so far.
YouTube - Peertube
Discord - Matrix? Don’t know a lot about Matrix. It integrates with Discord and a bunch of other stuff
I've looked at Matrix and it's exactly like Discord except it uses encryption on everything.
It also is filled with super shady rooms. You can very easily run into CP if you're not careful.
I'm waiting for the Discord <-> Matrix bridges to get better. Mautrix for instance lets you control your Discord presence straight from Matrix: https://github.com/mautrix/discord/blob/main/ROADMAP.md
I didn't really do Twitter but was big into Instagram for a while until the whole thing started with them pushing reels, so honestly Mastodon is more of a replacement for IG in my particular case. I can upload images, so there's no real need to keep a separate Pixelfed. Pixelfed users who just want to see images can in fact follow people on Mastodon, and just get their images. I can also follow people on Pixelfed and see them in my Mastodon feed. So that covers all the bases really.
Still use Discord plenty, never really had a problem with it although I do use it for its intended purpose rather than trying to turn it into a forum which is where a lot of servers seem to go wrong.
Don't use FB, although I understand Friendica is the main replacement software for that.
Been considering looking into PeerTube but it seems best for very short videos just due to file storage. Mine tend to be more around the 15-20 minute mark on average so not sure that would work.
revolt isnt fediverse, not every app is
Discord -> Element(matrix) is my go to
Lemmy obvs.
Then NewPipe/freetube for YouTube. In saying this, though, I do acces YT directly if I need to post a comment or something, very occasionally. Not sure if the replacement counts as social media since they are just scrappers, you don't really interact with others.
I use Signal for family. Couldn't get friends to jump over. Nobody cares. Everybody loves Whatsucks.
Casual discord user, been looking at options but haven't made up my mind yet. Probably not worth the hassle considering how little I use it
Reddit - Lemmy Discord/Signal/WhatsApp - Matrix Twitter - Mastodon Instagram - Pixelfed
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.
What's the issue with WhatsApp? I thought it was great for privacy.
It's owned by Facebook and isn't open source. There's no verifiable way to say for sure that Facebook doesn't have a master key to read everything you send on it. Compare to say, Signal, which is open source and can be verified to be secure.
It's still part of the Meta platform so not completely independent.
WhatsApp currently shares certain categories of information with Meta Companies. The information we share with the other Meta Companies includes your account registration information (such as your phone number), transaction data (for example, if you use Facebook Pay or Shops in WhatsApp), service-related information, information on how you interact with businesses when using our Services, mobile device information, your IP address, and may include other information identified in the Privacy Policy section entitled ‘Information We Collect’ or obtained upon notice to you or based on your consent.
It’s owned by Facebook
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
Lemmy = reddit Newpipe = YouTube Mastodon = news/twitter
Unless the communities you visit move, it’d be very difficult to move entirely.
This applies to discord especially.
They’re more of a compliment to the other social networks in many cases
Yup. Reddit is 100% gone but Discord remains used for me
convincw friends by saying no nitro there
Same. I've stopped with Reddit since I've never posted there with my real name. No one knew me personally, and I didnt know anyone personally, so my switch to kbin was easy.
My real-life family and friends use Discord, Instagram, Messenger, Twitter, Viber, and WhatsApp, so I'll continue to at least have accounts on those.
reddit+instagram -> lemmy 🤑
Instead of livejournal, I wrote my own blogging software in PHP.
Here is a really cool curation of fediverse-related platforms that I learned about prior to cancelling #reddit.
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.
Just kbin and discord, I have no other social media.
kbin?
Same thing as Lemmy, just a different site but it's federated as well. Lemmy can see kbin content and we can see Lemmy content. I'm replying from kbin right now.
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.
Reddit - Lemmy Discord - Matrix Texting - Signal/RCS Twitter - Mastodon
Facebook - None Messenger - Signal Discord - Discord Twitter - N/A Instagram - None Skype / Zoom - Discord / Teams
Revolt is foss discord, teams should be replacwd but depends on your use case
It took my until this year to finally disable my Facebook account - my Instagram has been disabled for a while. If it stays disabled for at least six months, I’ll finally delete it.
Why? It’s very hard to convince friends from around the world to all switch platforms when there is no major draw and most people are NOT on the new platform.
I don’t like Zoom or Teams, but there are cases in which you are forced to do so in order to interact remotely with certain customers or businesses.
It took months and multiple people to convince one of my more tech savvy friends to switch to signal.
Sure, I can make the switch. But is it worth the hassle?
I think this site and Counter.Social are working out to be my primary online haunts these days...
How would you describe counter.social? I read through their home page and like a lot of what they're saying but im not sure if its like Discord or Twitter or something more akin to Lemmy? I'd rather follow communities over individuals and it kind of looks like you follow people but I can't be sure.
To be honest, I don't really know much about the people behind either of these sites. That being said, Jester is pretty active on CoSo. I originally gave CoSo a try because Twitter was beginning to go downhill and I was looking for an alternative. I tried a few, CoSo had a lot of neat features and impressed me enough that I was even willing to pay the 4.99/month for the "Pro Account".
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As for this site (kbin.social), I was looking for a Reddit alternative. This site reminds me of what Reddit used to be and, for that reason, looked better than Reddit does these days. I known nothing of Lemmy and had never even heard of it (him?) before finding this site.
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In both cases, you just don't see the bot-farm-generated trolling that loads up the mainstream sites. The stuff that's just out there to get us arguing with each other. Also nice to not see endless ads. Maybe not completely free of trolls, etc., but, since it's not as prevalent, it's easier to filter out.
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?
So far, testing out platforms.
Threads doesn't count. It's Meta and hard linked to an Instagram account.
Out of the open platforms, I use:
Reddit: Lemmy, Beehaw, Kbin
Twitter: Mastodon, Calckey
Facebook: idk nothing really plus I don't even use Facebook that much anymore
I may occasionally use proprietary ones like Twitter, Tumblr and Threads.
Beehaw is also lemmy !
Really just use Lemmy, Mastodon, and Element. I keep Discord installed because all my irl friends use it. I don't interact with any servers on it anymore though, just DM friends.
try used webcord instead, discord frontend