We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever?::Users say excessive ads, bots and misinformation have sucked the fun out of sharing publicly.

  • helenslunch
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    6 months ago

    I’ve been using Signal stories and telling people to follow me there. I know it gets lots of hate but honestly it’s the only form of private social media. It has no ads or bots. My “posts” get sent to exactly who I want them to and no one else. Then truly disappear from existence.

    There is another similar project called Circles from FUTO that uses Matrix but it’s very Alpha right now.

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        6 months ago

        FUTO is the one Louis Rossman works for that creates and funds a bunch of FOSS.

        FUTO.org

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          6 months ago

          You mean “FOSS” that specifically prohibits you from having most of the freedoms that define FOSS?

          Read the FUTO license. It’s a mess.