sparr | 2020 Facebook Alternatives Roundup

I will once again be adopting the New Year Resolution to read and post to other social networks before coming to Facebook, in an attempt to lessen its hold on my life and by extension the lives of my friends. I strongly encourage everyone else to do the same, at the very least so that you already have alternatives ready when Facebook goes down or gets blocked in your country or bans you or just starts censoring your posts.

You can find me in the following places:

https://www.reddit.com/user/sparr/submitted/ /u/sparr Add me as a friend and then you can use https://www.reddit.com/r/friends/ to see a "news feed" of everything your friends have posted.

https://mastodon.social/@sparr @sparr@mastodon.social Mastodon is a federated open source social network that functions vaguely similarly to Twitter.

https://sparr.dreamwidth.org/ Dreamwidth is a fork of LiveJournal, my oldest and favorite platform for long form writing, with some of the best privacy and anonymity options of any platform.

https://joindiaspora.com/people/98ece344da783437 sparr@joindiaspora.com Diaspora is a federated open source social network that functions vaguely similarly to Facebook.

https://nextdoor.com/profile/16322983/ Nextdoor is a neighborhood-based site where you can interact with people who live close to you. Some neighborhoods are pretty toxic, but others are chill and helpful... pretty much like real neighborhoods.

https://wt.social/u/sparr-risher Wiki Tribune is an attempt to build a social network around wiki concepts of people being able to collaboratively write and edit content.

https://beta.sociall.io/u/5e0a6372c9afde0cb4010981/feed A newcomer to the field, blockchain based, supposedly security-focused, can import friends and posts from Facebook.

https://www.minds.com/sparr/ I tried Minds a couple of years ago and it seems to have grown since then.

https://mewe.com/i/sparr MeWe is focused on interest-based communities.

https://twitter.com/sparr0 It's twitter.

https://sinblr.com/@sparr @sparr@sinblr.com This is another Mastodon instance ("federated" means it works like email; anyone can host a server, many people can use one server, and one person can have different accounts on different servers for different purposes) dedicated to adult themed content.

https://fetlife.com/sparr Fetlife is the most popular social network site for adult topics, functionally very similar to Facebook.

https://keybase.io/sparr Keybase is a service for secure identity management and verification that also offers file sharing and chat.

https://facebook.com/sparr0 @sparr0 I am also still on Facebook for now.

You can also find me on various instant messaging and chat platforms. In descending order of frequency, I use... Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, SMS, RCS, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Keybase, Steam. I am also active on Discord and various Slack instances, and can be reached via email at sparr0@gmail.com or my first name at protonmail dot com for more secure concerns.

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