Zuckerberg has gone hard right, and Facebook will fully reflect that soon.
The useful element of Facebook for me has been a community group. This is how lock-in works -- I'd like to help my neighbors move to a platform that is private and doesn't kiss Trump's ass, but NextDoor is horrible and I'm not sure what else to try.
@dangillmor perhaps discord? Allows self moderation and can still invite whomever. Idea being it's still region focused or community focused. Idk how it translates for everyone, though. My gaming, modding, dnd, and toronto travelers discords all moderate and find balance when trolls pop up. Similar to mastodon, there are many communities that (in discords case) can't affiliate if they wanted to after creation.l due to numbers or whatever. The next best is... yeah, I got crickets.
@RandyHK Who owns Discord?
@dangillmor Discord is owned by Citron, under a 90/10% revenue split with server admins. He is a billionaire, did turn down a Microsoft buy offer. For controversies, same as telegram and insta it's been used by bad actors. Yes slow in response, but unlike substack discord isn't reliant on bad actors. Here is more from the verge and him: https://www.theverge.com/24134914/discord-ceo-gaming-chat-teens-safety-moderation-decoder-interview
@RandyHK So, centralized ownership. Not going to make that mistake again...
@dangillmor closest you'll get perhaps then is matrix.org. fediverse alternative attempt for slack and discord. I'm seeing plenty of fediverse projects, the innovators time is now. How long? How soon? Idk. Not networked enough to ask someone who might know. Today I left insta for pixelfed. All Meta gone for me. Like quitting google, aws, and Microsoft, social media is gonna be a transition but one I hope we all feel better for afterwards.
@RandyHK @dangillmor for a community space there's stuff like lemmy (activitypub based forum)
There's also a bunch of stuff built on bluesky's atproto & lexicon scheme forks, including stuff you can fully self host (while supporting bluesky hosted accounts!). See Whitewind (blogging), Smoke Signal (event planning), Frontpage (resembles hacker news).
@RandyHK @dangillmor
How about Signal groups or Slack? Signal has a desktop app. Both are centralized, but I have a feeling that a group chat will necessarily be centralized, especially if it's private.
Or maybe email. It seems like there should be a way to have shared ownership of an email distribution list (more reliably than "reply all").