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Social Networking
What are the best social networks?
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Best social networks
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Lemmy
Free
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Mastodon
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Web, IOS, Android
Federated
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LinkSpace
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Telegram
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Web, Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, Windows phone, UWP
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Twitter
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Lemmy
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Lemmy
My Recommendation for
Lemmy
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Experiences
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Problematic instances can be blocked
If the moderation of a certain instance is not good, other instances can block it.
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slantstuff's Experience
Been using it for years, good platform where it feels better to have discussion and express unpopular opinions due to it showing both the upvotes and the downvotes.
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A rich ecosystem of third party clients and software
See the awesome lemmy github repo.
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Simple and fast interface
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Open-source
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Shows both number of upvotes and number of downvotes, not just total
If someone has some unpopular opinion you can still see some people upvoted it and therefore appreciated it (so you can decide to read it).
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Federated
Anyone can self-host the software on their own server. Users can join an instance they like. You can view and comment on other servers (instances) as long as the instance you are on hasn't blocked the other instance.
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Mastodon
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Mastodon
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Mastodon
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ElatedRongo's Experience
One of the only twitter alternatives that makes it possible to take control of your social media without necessary 3rd party control
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Platforms:
Web, IOS, Android
Type:
Federated
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Open Source
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Actively developed
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here
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LinkSpace
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LinkSpace
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LinkSpace
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3
Pros
3
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Custom color themes
Profiles can have their own colors which are reproduced on Discover feed too
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Beautiful user interface
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Very intuitive
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here
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Telegram
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Telegram
My Recommendation for
Telegram
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9
Experiences
1
Pros
7
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Pro
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Supergroups of up to 200,000 people
In Supergroups, anyone along with admins can delete their messages from all sides. A message can be pinned to the top. All of the user's messages can be deleted by an administrator, and they can be banned and reported as well. Supergroups can have a public link (outside of Asia, due to high spam volumes), which is also a username.
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CourageousUgallu's Experience
I really love this social media channel. I like that it has encrypted chats and doesn't leak your data like Facebook. The communities feature is also super nice to have.
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Specs
Platforms:
Web, Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, Windows phone, UWP
Publisher:
Various companies affiliated with Telegram
File Size:
2048 MB
End-to-end encryption:
Secret chats
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Beautiful UI
Very customizable with a lot of clean looking options.
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Free of cost
The application is available free of cost.
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Media messaging
Videos, gifs, images, geolocation, and documents.
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Channels for one way broadcasting
Broadcasting channels suitable for announcing things.
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Free and convenient large file sharing
Copy/paste videos, gifs, images, geolocation, documents, and even executable files. Drag over files for practically any time up to 1.5GB in size. Images can be compressed, too.
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Privacy focused
In addition to the end-to-end encryption that provides privacy to communications, the app also includes self destructing timers for chats, and the ability to permanently delete messages, yours and theirs, from your device.
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Twitter
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Twitter
My Recommendation for
Twitter
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3
Pros
3
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Lightweight
Low resource required to use twitter.
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Has dark mode
On new update, it implements dark mode which useful for night reader.
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SNS used by public figure
President, actress, and other public figures mainly use twitter.
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IRC
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IRC
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IRC
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Specs
Platforms:
Web iOS Android WP OSX Windows Linux
Service integrations:
No
DIY integrations:
Yes
Hosting options:
Hosted & self-hosted
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MeWe
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MeWe
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MeWe
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6
Experiences
2
Pros
1
Cons
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Only few people on the network
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Privacy-oriented CEO
Mark Weinstein has done interviews both on NPR and Fox News describing his commitment to privacy: NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/22/958877682/fast-growing-alternative-to-facebook-twitter-finds-right-wing-surge-messy Fox: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6210459350001
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robla's Experience
I joined MeWe a couple of years ago (as of this writing in March 2021). I think it was a couple years ago. It was the first social network in a while (that isn't named after a high-school yearbook) that attracted a few of my non-techie friends.
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Free version is limited to 8GB storage
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JoyousShivini's Experience
I'm just new to MeWe. Smooth to use.
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Not well translated (French speaking user)
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Free+
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diaspora*
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diaspora*
My Recommendation for
diaspora*
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1
Pros
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Control over your own data
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GAB
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GAB
My Recommendation for
GAB
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Snapchat
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Snapchat
My Recommendation for
Snapchat
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1
Specs
Specs
Platforms:
Android / iOS
Publisher:
Snapchat Inc
File Size:
17M
End-to-end encryption:
no
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Instagram
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Instagram
My Recommendation for
Instagram
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3
Pros
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Cons
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Good platform for exposure
Instagram is the photo sharing app with the most users.
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Awkward framing
Photos shot in Instagram must be in a square format. Uploaded photos must be cropped to be square shaped.
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Filled with children
Instagram is extremely popular with middle school and high school kids.
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Google Plus
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Google Plus
My Recommendation for
Google Plus
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1
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Discontinued
Google Plus is being shut down on August of 2019 following data leak of 500,000 users.
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Facebook
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Facebook
My Recommendation for
Facebook
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3
Experiences
2
Cons
1
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Con
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Known cases of censoring
Facebook had cases of censoring content, pro Conservative US party for example.
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HonestHermodr's Experience
world class example of shady business
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DiplomaticAdrestia's Experience
Not lightweight
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