Subj : Re: book: the chaos machi
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Mar 07 2023 11:16:24

  Re: Re: book: the chaos machi
  By: Nightfox to Moondog on Tue Mar 07 2023 09:50 am

 >   Re: Re: book: the chaos machi
 >   By: Moondog to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Mar 07 2023 07:27 am
 >
 >  Mo> I've known some social media folk who used to be heavy Facebook users
 >  Mo> ditch it in favor of other platforms during the last election. I have
 >  Mo> no idea if they are happy with whatever platform they moved to. I
 >  Mo> haven't created accounts on other sites to track their activity.
 >
 > It seems to me there isn't really a good popular alternative to Facebook.

Reddit maybe?

 > Instagram only allows you to post photos,

Replies to posts can be text and discussion do sometimes happen in that form.

 > and Twitter only allows you to
 > post short text posts, etc..  There are other social media sites similar to
 > Facebook but they aren't really popular anymore (MySpace, Orkut, etc.).

Mastadon. I intend to start using Mastadon more for my "modern" social media "needs" and look into Synchronet integration.
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