These 5 alternative social networks are the cure for Facebook fatigue - Fast Company Hm, one of these helps you migrate your stuff off of Facebook, that’s interesting.
@bradenslen I wonder how they do the migration, though? Ask you to upload your huge Facebook data export zip?
And on the other hand, they’re missing one alternative network :-P
@jeannie Agreed. I do like seeing what others have cooked up. The problem with cloning FB or Twitter is you clone the very flaws that ruined them.
@smokey I wonder if they missed Micro.blog because we are (kinda) a paid service or they just never heard of us?
@bradenslen @smokey Agree strongly with @jeannie's instinct. I just took no more than five minutes to poke around all but Mastodon and these other four options are sketchy in a number of ways, especially compared with Micro.blog.
@simonwoods @bradenslen @smokey @jeannie When I deleted my Facebook profile (mid-2017), I thought I needed a social-type network to replace it, so I started to post on Google+ instead. Then Google+ disappeared and I was relieved, among other things. I don’t miss it.
@simonwoods I (obviously, or I wouldn’t be here) think there’s a lot of value in putting a social/network layer on top of blogs, and I think “networks of blogs” in various forms are both the simplest and sanest ways out of the current social networks. (Which makes it all the more sad that Micro.blog wasn’t listed on that list of alternatives and a bunch of sketchy ones were….) I guess it comes down to how you define a social network—I think Micro.blog is clearly one, but it’s not one in the same manner as Twitter/Facebook/Google+/Instagram/Whatever (in other words, I think we’re mostly all in agreement and just have different definitions for the terms). // @bradenslen @jeannie @artkavanagh
@smokey I think that may be it. Plus we don't have the right buzzwords du jour like "federated" slapped all over the halls.
@bradenslen We should get Manton to rebrand as “The Federated Blogs of Micro.blogia” 😂 (with apologies to the Federated States of Micronesia)