1/ 🚀 Thread: Alternative Social Networks to Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter 🚀

Social media platforms are becoming increasingly centralized and ad-driven. Luckily, there are alternatives that focus on privacy, decentralization, and user-centric experiences. Here are some worth considering! 👇
#SocialMediaAlternatives #Decentralized #Privacy

Well, here we are. Apparently, I joined on July 12, 2023, but it made such an impression I tried to join again today. This time, I'm staying.

Actually, I'm getting ready to update a ZDNET article on where to go if you're fed up with X/Twitter. It was time to make sure I included Mastodon in that list. #twitter #twexit #SocialMediaAlternatives

A few months after the Muskening over on birdsite, it's become clear which of the alternatives are getting more engagement for my work and which ones aren't. Obviously, birdsite is where I get the most engagement, but that's just not fair because I already had everything established there before all this shit happened.

tl;dr:
✔ Mastodon, FurAffinity, Itaku
❌ Inkblot, Cohost

Ever since I started posting here again, I got a lot more engagement than I thought I would. Also, I just like its features better than birdsite, so I'm definitely gonna stick around for the foreseeable future.

FurAffinity has also seen a LOT of activity since I started to actually use it to post my art instead of looking at other art. Yeah, the site feels like it's in the beginning of Web 2.0 and lacks many of the features I got spoiled on, but definitely a keeper as well.

Itaku took some time getting used to, but there's definitely a desire for my work there. I'm not the biggest fan of how it handles community moderation of content, and some of the features could be streamlined for a better user experience, but I can deal with it.

Inkblot feels weird. It's got most of the features I ever wanted from an art-centric social media. The dev team did a wonderful job on it. However, it feels kinda barren. I barely get any activity there, and it's probably because it's kinda tedious to look for new art and artists there. Their search functionality is sorta garbage, and I may not use it further.

Cohost was the first of the alternatives I signed up for because it felt like twitter. However, the site culture feels like it's more for the long-form writing and coding crowd than it is for artists, so I'm probably gonna stop using it too.

Let me know what you think about the birdsite alternatives in the comments!

#socialmedia #socialmediaalternatives #Mastodon #FurAffinity #Itaku #Inkblot #Cohost #artist #mastoart