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Like, we're in an interesting era of times where so many alternatives are cropping up because of the drastic and draconic practices that have been taken on the social media platforms we've commonly embraced. But eventually, starting new can get tiring after a while.

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[โ€“] nyternic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of good insight on here.

I myself, am getting up there. I am only now just entering Hive Social as a twitter replacement. I'm BEGGING for a Facebook replacement at this point that's not just another Zuck project. I've replaced Reddit with Lemmy so far.

As for anywhere else, I know of them but I can't bring myself to the levels of contribution and commitment as I have with the other social platforms like FB, Reddit, Lemmy, Twitter, Hive .etc

Because it's just too much work, you know? Your mind is continually running like a piston engine for thought as to what to say and everything as part of a community. Social Media risks everyone of running off the treads eventually until they just decentralize themselves from it all and hide in places like Discord where that's all that they can handle, some people, no where.

I've been doing this social media thing since the 2000s, so that's 20+ years of hopping forum to forum, from platform to platform now. We're all forced to just run away, stand the tide of bullshit or just withdraw ourselves.

But yeah, I can't do things like Gaia Online anymore because I'm way too old for that place now. Twitter, is Musk's Playground, regardless of the new CEO in place. FB is just there because my friends on there are stubborn. Reddit, after years of being banned and having to make accounts because of the waves of toxicity, I'm finally tired of it. Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Tiktok .etc I refuse to join and apply myself in.

Apparently Frendica is a Facebook/Google+ alternative in the Fediverse. You may want to look into that