Social media
The open, federated social web — Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Lemmy — talks one shared language (ActivityPub), so one account follows them all. No ads, no engagement algorithm, and each community runs its own corner of it.
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ditch: X / Threads
try: Mastodon
an evening
- gain
- Chronological feed, no ads, your community owns the server.
- lose
- Smaller network. Some people you follow will not be there.
ditch: YouTube (watching)
try: NewPipe or FreeTube
half an hour
- gain
- No ads, no autoplay rabbit holes, background play for free.
- lose
- No comments or uploads; occasionally breaks until updated.
ditch: Reddit
try: Lemmy
an evening
- gain
- Federated forums with no corporate moderation whiplash.
- lose
- Niche communities are much smaller or missing.
ditch: Discord
try: Fluxer
an evening
- gain
- Basically an open-source clone of Discord. No age verification.
- lose
- Quite new, not as many communities present.