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[–] DanTheMan827@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unless the communities you visit move, it’d be very difficult to move entirely.

This applies to discord especially.

They’re more of a compliment to the other social networks in many cases

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. Reddit is 100% gone but Discord remains used for me

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

convincw friends by saying no nitro there

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Same. I've stopped with Reddit since I've never posted there with my real name. No one knew me personally, and I didnt know anyone personally, so my switch to kbin was easy.

My real-life family and friends use Discord, Instagram, Messenger, Twitter, Viber, and WhatsApp, so I'll continue to at least have accounts on those.

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I recently came across https://pixelfed.org/ for an Instagram replacement. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but it looks promising. Seems like a federated platform like Lemmy/Mastodon that's geared towards photo sharing.

[–] GrouchyLady@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (12 children)

What's the issue with WhatsApp? I thought it was great for privacy.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

the only thjng good is the messages and calls are alledgely encrypted, literally every other detail they know. live location? entire contact list? how frequently you text someone? etc etc

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Mastodon (specifically mstdn.ca). Lemmy.ca, pixelated (though I rarely use it like I should) and I'm hoping to soon get a tilvids account to document my progress modelling for X-plane and creating the assets for my own computer board game.

[–] SapphicFemme@lib.lgbt 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy = reddit Newpipe = YouTube Mastodon = news/twitter

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

reddit+instagram -> lemmy πŸ€‘

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Instead of livejournal, I wrote my own blogging software in PHP.

Here is a really cool curation of fediverse-related platforms that I learned about prior to cancelling #reddit.

https://github.com/machawk1/awesome-selfhosted

[–] iNeedScissors67@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just kbin and discord, I have no other social media.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's time to use session over Signal

[–] d00phy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never got anyone to use Signal!

I would use session with people I meet on the internet. For my family, they are too entrenched in other chat services for me to be able to move. When I root my mobile I will put these apps in the workspace.

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I tried Tumblr as a replacement for reddit for a while, but I'm just not really cut out for microblogging, so I came to lemmy.

Reddit - Lemmy Discord - Matrix Texting - Signal/RCS Twitter - Mastodon

[–] AndreTelevise@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Out of the open platforms, I use:
Reddit: Lemmy, Beehaw, Kbin
Twitter: Mastodon, Calckey
Facebook: idk nothing really plus I don't even use Facebook that much anymore

I may occasionally use proprietary ones like Twitter, Tumblr and Threads.

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