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Stuff like this is a major, major component of dealing with nazis.
And even after they're dealt with, it's a better way of doing things, anyway. If it's a company, you're not on their social media platform, as much as you can possibly manage.
Which is a lot.
If all my friends, family, and coworkers could get off WhatsApp, I would be so happy.
I'm trying to convince mine to get on Signal
I just did convince my family and all close friends to move to signal.
Let's hope this helps dansup get past the recent unpleasantness and he can delegate more. His output is amazing but burnout is a concern.
WhatsApp? Just use signal already!
It's not really a whatsapp alternative. More like a facebook messenger alternative. It replaces and encrypts dms from mastodon, pixelfed, lemmy, etc
Centralized. Not good. Conversations is on fdroid and is decentralized, federated, open source and uses a mature and battle tested protocol (XMPP). If I wanted something new, I would prefer Matrix over Signal.
People act like we need an alternative to Whatsapp but XMPP/Jabber exists and is much older.
Why are there so many downvotes? Dude said the truth. Signal, like whatsapp, is a single point of failure. It can be enshittified just like whatsapp.
What is Sup ?
Not too much. Sup with you?
😂😂 Nice one Anyways, what is this "Sup" that people keep talking about ? Is it another federated platform ?
Thanks for being a good sport. In these trying times we have to cherish every genuine updog moment we find ourselves in.
It's federated encrypted messaging :)
which uses the newer AT Protocol
This "newer" seems to be doing a lot of work.
Okay so
BlueSky = Twitter
Loops = TikTok
PixelFed = Instagram
Sup = What's App
Lemmy = Reddit
~~BlueSky~~ Mastodon = Twitter
Loops = TikTok
PixelFed = Instagram
Sup = What's App
Lemmy = Reddit
What can replace Facebook?
And how can anyone convince all their friends, family, and random people the follow, to jump platform?
What can replace Facebook?
Facebook was a mistake that doesn't need to be repeated, but both Friendica and GoToSocial have facebookish UI, if that's what you mean.
As for convincing people to join, I'm not sure if we can. Lead a horse to water and all that.
Bluesky is just Twitter before being bought by Elon Musk. The real alternative is Mastodon. Bluesky can go fuck itself.
BlueSky is another corporate microblog platform, which could end up going the way of Twitter. I'm not saying it will be bought by a fascist billionaire, but they will be beholden to advertisers at some point in the near future.
I would highly recommend finding a Mastodon, Akkoma, or GoToSocial instance that aligns with your values and use that instead. If you are concerned about the network effects of not being on the 'biggest' platform where all the celebs are, there is a Bluesky->Mastodon bridge available.
Man, Dansup is tearing it up like an absolute beast. Donate to his fund.
Never heard of Sup for some reason, gotta check it out.
Sup hasn't been released yet, so that's probably why you haven't heard of it. Dan says beta testing launches early 2025.
Is it really just one guy writing three different platforms?
There's hundreds of other contributers, but he started them all and did the bulk of the work. The plan is to have more regular developers if they get enough donations.
Has anyone here tried Loops? Does it have an algorithm and if so what's it like? Any good?
It has a "For You" tab but it's not doing anything yet. Or... I don't know what it's doing, to be honest.
Dansup said that he's adding an algorithm soon.
Folks if you still have legacy social, agitation over there is doing rounds right now. Unfortunately, there's significantly fewer of us working to get people onboarded than thee last migration. If you still have those accounts, please consider plugging fedi.