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Ex-Facebook Users, What Do You Use Now?

I joined Facebook years ago not long after it took off from its college roots. I also quit it years ago when my feed became full of junk.

The one thing I miss is contact with my friends, family, and ex-cowokers. Most of them weren’t technically inclined so that was the only platform they were on. Some of them did move to Instagram, which I did as well until Facebook bought it.

I then tried wt.social shortly after it started up. It seemed like a great alternative, but its growth is very slow, It has 450,000 users according to wikipedia. Now there’s a version 2, Trust Cafe. The same article also mentioned that they’re looking into connecting to ActivityPub.

What do you use in place of Facebook to stay in contact with friends and family? Mainly, I just use text messaging apps. I use Lemmy and Mastodon for news and information.

FlashMobOfOne ,
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Nothing.

I hate Facebook. I spent most of my time on Twitter until Elon Musk pulled that stupid stunt with the sink, then I moved to Mastodon, which I love.

itmightbethew ,
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Nothing until the start of the pandemic when we all fled to Discord. I have pretty much everybody important in various Discord servers. Being free of acquaintances, coworkers and family members is nothing but positive for me but I realize that’s probably not true for everyone.

What this made me realize though is how smaller interconnected communities are better for those communities and their members. Or it feels that way to me. That’s why I came here after Reddit set its own dumpster fire (and is now apparently gleefully throwing gasoline and tires on it)

Evergreen5970 ,

contact with my friends, family, and ex-cowokers

Whenever I wanted to keep in touch with someone growing up, I’d ask to exchange phone numbers. I still do. This habit meant I didn’t really need to use social media to honestly keep in touch with most people. At most the social media would hand me a quick life update (e.g. vacation picture lets me know to ask you how your vacation was) that I could use to start a conversation. I think this worked because most people my age had cell phones that they accessed the social media from.

symfonystation ,
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@curt Friendica

zergling_man ,

They can come visit me if they have something to say. Or email. I’ve invited them to XMPP and fedi many times and they’ve ignored it. I interpret this as them not wanting to talk to me.

Gutotito ,
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Pretty much just this. Well, and LinkedIn, but I don't post personal stuff over there. I moved from Facebook to Reddit about eight or nine years ago, and with Reddit circling the drain, am currently rudderless. Tried this Mastodon thing when it first got popular a few years ago and had no good experiences with it; this time around seems to be different with all the fresh blood. Just hope it keeps on keepin' on .

Christa ,

I got into Facebook pretty late (around 2010) and it never grabbed me. I caught up with old friends, but the window into their lives that it provided me with just made them seem annoying. I fiddled with it for a bit and then switched to Google Plus for the brief window between it coming up and Google sucking all of the joy out of it. After that, it was Twitter and then Mastodon around five years back.

As for keeping up with friends and family, it’s mostly email, phone, and the occasional Signal group chat.

NaoPb ,

Basically this place. I got fed up with all the negativity on Facebook and how everything is about interaction and not positivity. Facebook and other (social) media thrive on getting people agitated because that gets the most views on their ads. However it is slowly setting up humankind against each other and killing us.

ellabella ,
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  • Discord with irl and online friends
  • Twitter for fandom stuff and random opinions
  • Real Life dates with close friends
mnrockclimber ,

Family group chat and shared albums in iOS. Solve 90% of the needs.

don ,

Text messages.

omarciddo ,

Most of the friends I’m still in touch with are on Instagram, though relatively few post frequently anymore. Just a place to send random memes back and forth.

GhostMagician ,

Text messaging apps for one on one or group chats. Lot of my friends use discord and set up a channel just got us for when playing games or watching shows together.

I don’t use any type social media where people are actively encouraged to associate their real identity with and share personal photos or videos on a public feed.

Tubulous ,

Same as you. SMS and phone for most, email and phone for my older relatives. Lemmy and Mastodon for news and information. I have gotten some friends and coworkers to use Signal Messenger, but really, I am kind of done trying to convince people to change their habits. I do feel left out of some conversations that I know happen on Facebook and Apple iMessage, but not really worth “the extras” of having those accounts.

Pantoffel ,
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I once had a facebook profile. But I seldomly used facebook to stay in touch with anyone.

In the end I met people again at irl gatherings of mutual friends and acquaintances, or I did not.

My life was none the worse for not meeting the ones I didn’t, far as I can tell.

I deleted my account because I did not want to have one anymore, and I do not have need of a replacement anywhere else.

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