It’s 2023 and there are more open source, decentralized social media options than ever before like Lemmy, Mastodon, and more. However, I still find myself using some big tech platforms like Twitter and Google News fairly often. While federated social networks are compelling, the content curation and discovery on platforms like Twitter seems better for my interests. The echo chambers of Twitter feel preferable to the noise of something like Mastodon. What about you all? Have you moved completely to open source social platforms, or do you still rely on some big tech ones too? I’m curious to hear your perspectives!
I still use WhatsApp, because I have friends that won’t switch to Signal.
Other than that: I quit Facebook years ago, was never really interested in Twitter and recently stopped using reddit and switched to lemmy.
Edit: Oh, and YouTube… I totally forgot about YouTube.
Virtually everyone in my country uses WhatsApp. I’m essentially living off-grid if I don’t use it.
I still use WhatsApp
Sorry to break it to you but that’s still Facebook
I’m aware of that, that’s why I would like to get rid if it. And “technically” it’s not Facebook but another “Meta”-product 😉
Discord and YouTube are my two holdouts. The YouTube algorithm understands me too well and the amount of content on the platform is too insane for me to quit, but I could leave Discord (I’m never on it anyway)
for me Discord is very easy to replace, but impossible at the same time.
What I mean by this is, I know that Discord offers much more than past competitors, so everyone switched. But these days there are a bunch of Discord clones that are just as good, some of them FOSS. Discord is also very simple, if you want, code ur own.
In the mean time, just thinking about making all my contacts switch… It’s impossible! happened with guilded, I know one bigtech to another, but it’s THE SAME with more free options and features. I think I managed to get one guy registered, that not even a single Discord server ported. And now imagine if I actually tried to make the jump to FOSS: “Delete Discord, come join this xyz, it’s slower, buggier, has less users, has bearly features, but open source!”. No chance. :.c
No long form video content platform better than YT yet, I’ll be switching as soon as someone can make something better.
youtube for content finding
I still use YouTube because of the massive amount of content that’s on there. And Instagram because none of my irl friends are on the fediverse.
Have you told them about our lord and savior Pixelfed?
Ditched Facebook a number of years ago.
Never really clicked with Twitter, even with trying Mastodon it just seems difficult to view content in a format In familiar with.
Looking through others comments I guess YouTube is considered here and is probably my most used.
I use facebook for friends, family, running and hip hop groups and also for following artists
Technically yes, but in very limited ways.
I watch Youtube, but I do not post or comment. I am on Linkedin but I do not post, and infrequently comment. I am active on Discord, and will remain until they too get greedy and I have to abandon the product.
I’m probably going to over-answer this as I think “out loud” but here goes anyway.
I’ve never done FB because FB is evil. I did sign up once for just long enough to report some kid for being too young to be on FB but that is all I’ve ever done there. It is pretty tempting to sign up for reals, tho because it would be the best way to reconnect with some people I have lost touch with over the years.I did Reddit for a while, signed up during early COVID. I’ve been off Reddit for a while now and I do miss some of the smaller more niche communities. But overall, Reddit has changed recently for the worse. I’ll still browse /all most days and the content has really gone downhill. Slo-mo car wreck in progress there, I think. Reddit can be fun, but reactions seem wildly random. I think that’s due to there just being a whole fucking lot of ppl there so you never know who will respond to any given comment.
I’ve been on kbin since leaving Reddit and I feel more at home here than on Reddit. More like being in a bar here as opposed to a huge stadium on Reddit. And I’m not in a rush to change that.
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Moved totally to mastodon in 2019 but still had and used reddit until the protests. Since then i only use lemmy and mastodon and have no other social media accounts.
reddit because the boardgame discussion on here is dead, boardgamegeek doesn’t do well unless you’re looking at a specific game (and CasualUK is pretty decent)
Facebook because that’s where the church tech discussion is and I can sell boardgames so fast on there on the main group for my country.
Both sites main feeds are dead to me though, if Lemmy ever picks up significantly I can see me moving over full time
Twitter/Instagram/Snapchat/LinkedIn have all never been used or deleted.
Some people hardly ever used big-tech social media (preferred web1.0, making own sites), now start in the fediverse as it gains critical mass. A few specific transition issues: Appreciated complex boolean search in tweetdeck (abandoned since payable), look forward to similar functionality in Mastodon 4.2beta. Dropped FB after CA-brexit scandal, but now live in francophone community where FB still dominates interactions. Our schools mandate kids to use google’s networks. Kids seeking better options for music videos.
Wider question - most people on fediverse in europe or north america - how do we reach rest of the world ?I only use Lemmy tbh. I don’t know why people my age use instagram, snapchat, etc.
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