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!
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