2022 New Year Resolution, alternative social networks
My recurring New Year Resolution is to use social networks other than Facebook before I use Facebook, for as long as I can stand to keep it up (I usually last about a month).
This year you can find me on the following sites:
https://www.reddit.com/user/sparr/submitted/ Reddit is a very popular meta-forum site with hundreds of millions of users and covering tens of thousands of topics. It also has a social network component; you can see what your friends post/comment everywhere (reddit.com/r/friends) and post to your own profile rather than a specific forum (“subreddit”).
https://mastodon.social/@sparr Mastodon is a federated* clone of Twitter.
https://sparr.dreamwidth.org/ Dreamwidth is a classic long form blog-like social network, forked from LiveJournal about a decade ago.
https://joindiaspora.com/u/sparr Diaspora is a federated* clone of early Facebook.
https://nextdoor.com/profile/16322983/ Nextdoor is neighborhood-scale location-filtered social networking.
https://twitter.com/sparr0 You probably already recognize Twitter.
https://fetlife.com/sparr Adult / Kinky / Sexy social network, I mostly use it for groups.
https://keybase.io/sparr A provable identity linking service with a social network component and features for chat and file sharing.
https://facebook.com/sparr0 Included for the sake of completeness.
* “federated” means the servers work like email. You can have your account on a public server or run your own, and everyone on every server can interact with everyone on all the other servers, unless your server blocks another for reasons like spam or illegal content. It’s a great concept that eliminates a lot of the centralization problems with services like Facebook and Twitter.