As I see it:

Reddit - Lemmy Discord - Revolt Twitter - Mastodon Snapchat / Whatsapp - Signal ? Instagram - No replacement to my knowledge Skype / Zoom - Jitsi

etc etc

  • @[email protected]
    8•2 years ago

    YouTube - Peertube

    Discord - Matrix? Don’t know a lot about Matrix. It integrates with Discord and a bunch of other stuff

      • @[email protected]
        6•2 years ago

        Being careful of CP is a danger you take in most sites, especially the ones that don’t have a lot of users. I’ve stumbled on jailbait instances here… it’s fucking everywhere.

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆
          4•2 years ago

          I’ve been on curated internet too long. Randomly stumbling into CP wasn’t something I expected to see outside of the dark web since the main Internet got so tame during the late 2000’s through the 2010’s.

          • @[email protected]
            3•2 years ago

            The main internet didn’t get tame, they just got better at hiding it. But that’s the point. There’s more cp on the clear web than dark web because the clear web is much much larger than the dark web, and the dark web is more heavily tracked with a large FBI presence.

            Reddit had and still has issues with CP, weird threads with numbers and hash codes? Very likely some kind of downloading ring. There’s still “sink” threads on places like 4chan where a user posts an innocuous image, but upon closer inspection a single image file is way larger than it should be, meaning they injected the file with more files, by exploiting the metadata to turn an image file into essentially a zip folder. Isis used to use that method to recruit new members on twitter, out in the open they’d post a picture of some isis soldiers and if you extracted the files within the image you got recruitment docs and instructions on how to leave your country and fight with isis.

  • Crudman
    27•2 years ago

    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.

    • PrivateNoob
      3•2 years ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
        3•2 years ago

        Someone that is good with SEO could create a read-only instance that federates with every available instance to help with that

    • themadcodger
      5•2 years ago

      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.

  • AndreTelevise
    1•2 years ago

    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.

  • Sev
    10•2 years ago

    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 :)

      • Sev
        1•2 years ago

        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.

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

    Facebook - None Messenger - Signal Discord - Discord Twitter - N/A Instagram - None Skype / Zoom - Discord / Teams

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 years ago

        It took my until this year to finally disable my Facebook account - my Instagram has been disabled for a while. If it stays disabled for at least six months, I’ll finally delete it.

        Why? It’s very hard to convince friends from around the world to all switch platforms when there is no major draw and most people are NOT on the new platform.

        I don’t like Zoom or Teams, but there are cases in which you are forced to do so in order to interact remotely with certain customers or businesses.

        It took months and multiple people to convince one of my more tech savvy friends to switch to signal.

        Sure, I can make the switch. But is it worth the hassle?

  • @[email protected]
    12•2 years ago

    I host my own private “Facebook” for my large family. The web app is called HumHub and it’s free to use (though some premium add-ons are paid).

  • Hemingways_Shotgun
    3•2 years 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.

  • kabrododragon
    1•2 years ago

    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
  • DumbAceDragon
    1•2 years ago

    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.