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Don't know if this goes here or in /AskLemmy, but just wanted to know the best FOSS social networks, why are there so good? What would be the propietary equivalent?

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[–] sproid@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The most mature one I think is #Mastodon. Equivalent to Twitter. For Instagram alternative I love #Pixelfed. For facebook alternative I'll say #Minds is the most mature but the problem there is lack of moderation and is home for many conspiracy theorists. There are others that try to be an alternative to Facebook but IMO need more maturing. Those are Friendica and Diaspora.

[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is Minds? I've never heard of that one.

[–] GenkiFeral@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Minds is a bit FB-like. I used them for years at a time when they had encryption as somewhat of a default (though it was confusing). I quit over 6 months ago when they changed. I might go back because I'd like to join some protest movements. I'd like to see a breakdown of what servers this social media sites are using so that censoring server co.s such as AWS/Amazon can't pull the plug on them like was done with Parler. I love Lemmy's large ratio of tech-savvy people, but it is certainly left-leaning and not very tolerant of other voices. I am bisexual, atheist, vegan, female, a minimalist, tree-hugger, often date outside of my race, but Lemmy members still call me a rightwinger and try to throw me out of this or that group. We need a chart outlining servers, general politcal stance, who runs it (how much it is controlled and how), if a phone number is needed and what kind of phn # is accepted, if IP is necessary, etc. These details are extremely important. EX: without ever signing in, Google/YT knows I am using TOR (and may give an error message to say as much) and also knows my IP or IMEI or possibly my mac address - some identifying fingerprint - not sure which. Also, knowing what type of encryption is avialable and if by default would help. I've seen a decent chart somewhere with some of that, but it needed to be more indepth.

[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a fair point but I think it's important to create some clear distinctions here in how this these software projects are analyzed and compared.

lemmy.ml is a left leaning community. There is nothing about lemmy itself, it's design or implementation that make it left leaning inherently. If a right winger wanted to start a lemmy instance they could.

[–] GenkiFeral@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

hmmm, good idea. a libertarian instance might be nice. I dislike left and right equally. Both are too demanding and intrusive. i'll let the right do thier own thing without me.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

What would distinguish a libertarian instance from lemmy.ml in your opinion?