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Yea, at this point I'd be willing to pay $10/month for a social network that respected my privacy, didn't bombard me with ads, and just generally treated me as

by jcadam 9y ago

Yea, at this point I'd be willing to pay $10/month for a social network that respected my privacy, didn't bombard me with ads, and just generally treated me as a customer, rather than product. The trick of course is convincing anyone who isn't me to pay :) Heck, maybe it should be a non-profit.

itissid 9y ago
I use umatrix chrome extension to block FB and twitter to the max and almost every ad server. That keeps FB and twitter and a bunch of other nonsense out.
eckza 9y ago
Just... get your real friends to text you. If they won't text you, they're not your real friends. (This isn't always true, but I'd say that it's 95% accurate.) I'm not being condescending or pretentious. I have done this, over the last few months, and it's helped me to realize who's really worth having in my life on a daily basis, and who's not.
- freehunter 9y ago
  I don't want my friends texting me everything. That's far more disruptive than a passive feed I can glance at. And I don't want to text my friends everything either. One of the great things about Facebook is the unexpected social interactions. I post a picture and someone I haven't talked to in a while comments something really great on it and sparks a conversation and rekindles the friendship. That's not going to happen over text. People in my life on a daily basis are in my life on a daily basis. People in my life occasionally are on Facebook.
  - DashRattlesnake 9y ago
    > I don't want my friends texting me everything. That's far more disruptive than a passive feed I can glance at. And I don't want to text my friends everything either. Real friendships aren't passive.
    - freehunter 9y ago
      You have a very restrictive view of what a real friendship is. I'm sorry, but you don't get to define my relationships, that is not your right.
  - eckza 9y ago
    That’s fair. I am personally going through a period where I need to tighten my circle and cut down on the number of people that I communicate with on a given day, so that’s what’s driving my approach. Thank you for sharing your perspective.
  - Double_a_92 9y ago
    We have a Telegram group with all the important people. Just mute it so you can passively read it. And if it's something specifically for you they can @handle you. Also we have more specific groups for gaming, memes, serious, homework,... Oh and a "huge" group were we can add new people at first, that somebody randomly met somewhere. So they can maybe get friends with some of the others too.
freehunter 9y ago
It was called app.net, and it went out of business a few years back because no one wanted to pay for it.
DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> The trick of course is convincing anyone who isn't me to pay :) Honestly, maybe invites/sponsorships? One person who care's enough to pay $10 can bring his "social graph" (or a subset) with him.
rainbowmverse 9y ago
Mastodon Most instance admins have a Patreon and/or Liberapay if you want to send $10/month their way.

by jcadam 9y ago

itissid 9y ago

I use umatrix chrome extension to block FB and twitter to the max and almost every ad server. That keeps FB and twitter and a bunch of other nonsense out.

eckza 9y ago

Just... get your real friends to text you. If they won't text you, they're not your real friends. (This isn't always true, but I'd say that it's 95% accurate.) I'm not being condescending or pretentious. I have done this, over the last few months, and it's helped me to realize who's really worth having in my life on a daily basis, and who's not.

freehunter 9y ago
I don't want my friends texting me everything. That's far more disruptive than a passive feed I can glance at. And I don't want to text my friends everything either. One of the great things about Facebook is the unexpected social interactions. I post a picture and someone I haven't talked to in a while comments something really great on it and sparks a conversation and rekindles the friendship. That's not going to happen over text. People in my life on a daily basis are in my life on a daily basis. People in my life occasionally are on Facebook.
- DashRattlesnake 9y ago
  > I don't want my friends texting me everything. That's far more disruptive than a passive feed I can glance at. And I don't want to text my friends everything either. Real friendships aren't passive.
  - freehunter 9y ago
    You have a very restrictive view of what a real friendship is. I'm sorry, but you don't get to define my relationships, that is not your right.
- eckza 9y ago
  That’s fair. I am personally going through a period where I need to tighten my circle and cut down on the number of people that I communicate with on a given day, so that’s what’s driving my approach. Thank you for sharing your perspective.
- Double_a_92 9y ago
  We have a Telegram group with all the important people. Just mute it so you can passively read it. And if it's something specifically for you they can @handle you. Also we have more specific groups for gaming, memes, serious, homework,... Oh and a "huge" group were we can add new people at first, that somebody randomly met somewhere. So they can maybe get friends with some of the others too.

freehunter 9y ago

It was called app.net, and it went out of business a few years back because no one wanted to pay for it.

DashRattlesnake 9y ago

> The trick of course is convincing anyone who isn't me to pay :) Honestly, maybe invites/sponsorships? One person who care's enough to pay $10 can bring his "social graph" (or a subset) with him.

rainbowmverse 9y ago

Mastodon Most instance admins have a Patreon and/or Liberapay if you want to send $10/month their way.