As I see it:
Reddit - Lemmy Discord - Revolt Twitter - Mastodon Snapchat / Whatsapp - Signal ? Instagram - No replacement to my knowledge Skype / Zoom - Jitsi
etc etc
Lemmy obvs.
Then NewPipe/freetube for YouTube. In saying this, though, I do acces YT directly if I need to post a comment or something, very occasionally. Not sure if the replacement counts as social media since they are just scrappers, you don’t really interact with others.
I use Signal for family. Couldn’t get friends to jump over. Nobody cares. Everybody loves Whatsucks.
Casual discord user, been looking at options but haven’t made up my mind yet. Probably not worth the hassle considering how little I use it
I only used reddit as my big social media and then discord for messaging. Fediverse has become a good alternative to reddit, but discord will be hard to convince people to move over to alternatives like matrix or revolt.
Lemmy is a given, since I’m fairly active here.
I’ve been using Mastodon even if I was never a Twitter user. (Or at least, not a serious user. I had an account some time ago, as I was dating a girl who posted there often and she insisted that I should use it.)
I’ve been trying to convince people to migrate from Whatsapp to Signal. Easier said than done due to network effect.
Reddit - Lemmy Discord - Matrix Texting - Signal/RCS Twitter - Mastodon
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Lemmy also uses Matrix for encrypted DMs
that’s sick! didn’t know that, oughta check that out then. is there anywhere they discuss/explain that?
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still really cool tho - them integrating other open standard
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
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.
Yup. Reddit is 100% gone but Discord remains used for me
convincw friends by saying no nitro there
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.
Discord -> Element(matrix) is my go to
reddit+instagram -> lemmy 🤑
@[email protected] @[email protected] Replacement for Instagram is @[email protected] 👍
Trying to replace reddit on PC but this place still isn’t great for gaming and wrestling and niche games i’m currently into. I do enjoy it on my phone though, also tagged back in Somethingawful on my phone also for some nice reading of some classic threads and PYF stuff.
Other than that, no need to replace anything otherwise :)
I have been on SA a bunch lately too. 13 years later and I still don’t understand FYAD.
Same, but get a good thread or two under your belt and you’re hooked. I’m currently reading about some fellow Englishman building a new house and it’s very good with the humor and photos: ‘Towards an L shape architecture: a ham flavoured soakaway system’
Give it a read, funny shit so far.
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.
Lemmy fulfills a sort of reddit/more intimate internet forum thing. Reddit’s real social good was fixing shitty search engine results by using Reddit as a keyword, and for centralizing a lot of hobbyist discussion. Lemmy and the lemmylikes will get there as the platform matures.
I’m loving pixelfed as a sort of Imgur substitute tbh. Quick and easy image hosting for when I post on here. Not crazy about Instagram as a social media platform so there’s nothing I need pixelfed to do besides let me host medium-sized images, caption them and copy the link.
For imgur check out Catbox. I haven’t used it person, but it might be closer to imgur than pixelfed which is supposed to be an IG replacement.
I feel that currently Lemmy may be less web searcheable compared to Reddit, since the domain names aren’t consistent. I mean not every instance’s domain’s are named with lemmy. sopuli.xyz, programming.dev, technics, reddthat etc. I haven’t tested it tho.
Someone that is good with SEO could create a read-only instance that federates with every available instance to help with that
So far, testing out platforms.
- Mastodon was fairly good as a combo platform IMO
- Lemmy which seems really promising, getting used to the layout
- Threads is like Twitter and is Facebook, so
Threads doesn’t count. It’s Meta and hard linked to an Instagram account.
I didn’t really do Twitter but was big into Instagram for a while until the whole thing started with them pushing reels, so honestly Mastodon is more of a replacement for IG in my particular case. I can upload images, so there’s no real need to keep a separate Pixelfed. Pixelfed users who just want to see images can in fact follow people on Mastodon, and just get their images. I can also follow people on Pixelfed and see them in my Mastodon feed. So that covers all the bases really.
Still use Discord plenty, never really had a problem with it although I do use it for its intended purpose rather than trying to turn it into a forum which is where a lot of servers seem to go wrong.
Don’t use FB, although I understand Friendica is the main replacement software for that.
Been considering looking into PeerTube but it seems best for very short videos just due to file storage. Mine tend to be more around the 15-20 minute mark on average so not sure that would work.
