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Breaking monopolies is always a good thing for consumers. Anyone knows a Social network with solid features, perfect UI and good privacy ?
by arnaudsm 9y ago
Breaking monopolies is always a good thing for consumers.
Anyone knows a Social network with solid features, perfect UI and good privacy ?
- M4v3R 9y agoI hear Mastodon [1] is getting traction, though for me the UI is a bit unintuitive. [1] http://joinmastodon.org http://joinmastodon.org
- theptip 9y agoIIUC Mastodon is a twitter alternative; https://diasporafoundation.org/ https://diasporafoundation.org/ is more targeted at replacing FB.
- taborj 9y agoDiaspora has been around for a while; I remember joining about 6-7 years ago, but it suffered from the problem all new social networking sites suffer from -- nobody I knew or wanted to follow was there, so I abandoned it. I've since come to the conclusion that I'm not really a social networking type of person.
- ams6110 9y agoBoth Mastodon and Diaspora suffer from absolutely horrible names.
- zaarn 9y agoIf you don't like the UI there is Pleroma ( https://pleroma.social/ https://pleroma.social/ ) which is compatible with the Fediverse so you can interact with Mastodon instances.
- reitanqild 9y agoYou aren’t asking for perfect security so I'll just mention Telegram. I use it with my friends and family after WhatsApp betrayed us. Works really well for us but isn't like Facebook at all. The differences is it isn't broadcast-focused or build-huge-networks focused but is more organic.
- alangibson 9y agoI don't think we'll see another breakout until someone comes up with a new killer use case. "Basically Twitter but with no users" and "Basically Facebook but with no users" is not a compelling proposition.