‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media
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It’s owned by Brian Acton
No, he is a founder and a donor. It's owned by the Signal Foundation, which is a classic non-profit that seeks funding from lots of sources.
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Yeah... But to them, why should they deal with one difficult customer when they have a dozen more that are easier to work with?
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My point was about the social scenario, which is a genuine puzzle because most people want to have friends. I've lost some over this.
For the business context (this was the subject, true), I find that's much easier: "F*** off and send an email." Impossible? Well then that's one less customer for you. I have lots of experience of doing exactly this. Almost always the email suddenly becomes possible after all.
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The other founder is Moxie Marlinspike who is a security researcher
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I would never tell anyone to email me...
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Impressive that a site like Forbes is writing about the Fediverse. A small step to helping it into the mainstream.
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Yeah I think this is a very important point.
I think people will need to learn to accept that there is no such thing as "free". The current social media sells you to advertisers, taking every bit of data they can get.
So for independent and privacy focused social media, we're going to have to accept we have to pay for it.
I've moved to paying for my email, my file storage, my VPN and my password manager - all for privacy and security. I pay for subscriptions for streaming to avoid advertising. So I would pay for social media.
In the early days of the internet, people accepted paying for things but then the "free" model came along. The fediverse will need to persuade people to pay for it. That may limit it from being the big everyone social medial, but it could be able to become to the high quality version of social media that people pay for.
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Email alias?
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Can you guys help me: I have Facebook and instagram which isn't great. Never got twitter or tiktok and I'm very glad about that. If I get bluesky will I end up using instagram and Facebook less or just get addicted to another regretful thing? What's it actually like?
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Not too be confused with the Masturbatron.
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get our there and mention lemmy ppl here dont even want that site to grow
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Yes masta
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I joined Pixelfed yesterday, the Instagram alternative. I wasn't really active on IG and haven't logged in in years, but Pixelfed seems solid. The glaring issue though is that none of my friends use it, so it's just a personal photo for now, but hopefully that will change.
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That's a "in case of emergency" situation for me, personally.
