Free and Decentralized Networks

What are social media platforms if not a "place" to chat and share with the people you find important? They could be close friends, intimate acquaintances, people you’ve met, or even "famous" individuals. It depends on the type of profile you want—or are able—to build. You can choose to have a public or private profile, and in terms of sharing, you can show mo

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• Groups that need privacy should own a place outside of Facebook where they can organize and have their safe spaces. Setting up a Friendica and/or Mastodon instance is rather easy (for diaspora I'm not sure). People may feel more comfortable doing their private stuff in a place they own, rather than in a closed Facebook group. With groups that are already constituted, already closely knit, it is much easier to announce that you will create mirror accounts for all your members in a place where the data is theirs. When non-profit and informal groups start to move en masse to the free networks, the game will change.
• We might have to erode the monopoly of Facebook by promoting Twitter, in particular (with a trick up our sleeves). (Some might not want to get their hands dirty, and might feel that recommending Twitter over Facebook goes against their principles. Those people have no problems residing in free networks that are #closedgardens of a different kind, closed gardens where you live in social autarky because nobody knows free networks — I'm not even trying to argue with them anymore.) For the others: amongst the free networks, there is one that is based on a radically different, or enhanced, understanding of freedom, Friendica. It was created to let the user be at the center of all social network activity, all Web activity in fact. It is equipped with several connectors, one of which is the Twitter connector. It's Friendica. (Hubzilla as well, but I can't speak with certainty about this newcomer, which remains a hard to grasp concept.) With Friendica (and probably Hubzilla), you have the possibility to remain connected with your friends on Twitter, you don't have to sacrifice your friendships on the altar of "freedom". The folder, group, hashtag, and personal note functionalities on Friendica make it an interesting place to process your Twitter feed intelligently (plus, you can get billions of updates from the web using RSS, it's as easy as adding a contact). There is one shortcoming: you will not immediately see all the activity that occurs under a given tweet that Friendica presents to you. You'll have to click the link to the source and go on Twitter for that. To summarize, there is one way to promote free networks without promoting the severing of those social relationships that occur on the larger social networks, and its Friendica (/Hubzilla).
• Those friends you have on Facebook who value their friendships may not join you now, but they may help. Something that none of the free social networks is doing well is self-promotion on... social networks. Just try entering the name of your favorite free network platform on Fb. A pity. That's quite ironical, when you think of it. So you're left all alone with your superior principles. Those reluctant friends over on Fb are actually your best allies. They will not actively advertise for a free network, but they will be interested to look at the whole issue of Facebook as an algorithmmic giant, social control force and tax-dodging corporate bum. And that's all we need: we need to keep the conversation going.