I joined Facebook years ago not long after it took off from its college roots. I also quit it years ago when my feed became full of junk.
The one thing I miss is contact with my friends, family, and ex-cowokers. Most of them weren’t technically inclined so that was the only platform they were on. Some of them did move to Instagram, which I did as well until Facebook bought it.
I then tried wt.social shortly after it started up. It seemed like a great alternative, but its growth is very slow, It has 450,000 users according to wikipedia. Now there’s a version 2, Trust Cafe. The same article also mentioned that they’re looking into connecting to ActivityPub.
What do you use in place of Facebook to stay in contact with friends and family? Mainly, I just use text messaging apps. I use Lemmy and Mastodon for news and information.
Text messages.
This is what I do. Although I’m feeling increasingly old because I’ll spend like 5-10 minutes crafting a text message and then just decide to pick up the phone and call. I’ve become a monster.
You just… decide to pick up the phone and call?! That’s gotta be a violation of some kind of law; and to be honest, you and I can never be friends.
Mods, I order to permaban this poor soul.