19 Apr
2018
19 Apr
'18
2:57 a.m.
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:11:31 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
Social media alternatives (eg diaspora, gnu social): https://alternativeto.net/software/facebook/
Good list, which mentions that Mastodon (which I listed from that New Scientist article) is an offshoot of GNU Social. Another one that seems worth mentioning, for secure messaging, is Telegram. One seeming point in its favour is that it has been recently banned in Putin’s Russia. But the service is so resilient that in trying to block it, they have ended up taking out Russian access to rather large parts of the entire Internet <https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180417/13133139649/trying-to-ban-telegram-russia-breaks-internet.shtml>.