I don’t like Facebook, but my mother and my father-in law both have facebooks. I tried some different social medias but I can’t make my mom go because the social medias are from other countries and stuff. Are there any American social medias where my mom would feel comfortable putting her face on?
I usually don’t put my face on social medias, sometimes I’ll put a photo of a guy who kind of looks like me, and choose a photo that’s taken from really far away, and people who don’t know me that well will think it’s me. My mom likes to put a headshot and then pixilated photos of the American flag and quotes from celebrity women she likes. That’s kind of a facebook thing. Are there any social medias like that?
Merry Christmas to all the Christians. I’m not Christian, so I get to be here. See you after church. I get to enjoy myself, and you’re in uncomfortable clothing, hahaha.
Lol, you don’t. There’s a whole bunch of reasons they enjoy Facebook that you can’t replicate outside of it with privacy respecting social media. Mainly, all their friends and other pages they interact with already on Facebook.
This is a pretty frequent question in privacy spaces. The best you can do is manage your own, and maybe talk to them about the risks. Maybe. If they’re open to it.
I agree. Obviously for people like us in the minority, the big social media platforms are the stuff of nightmares. But for your average person, Friendica and Pixelfed and so on would be shit because they have no people and no content. And to a large extent, none of the addictive dark patterns.
Personally I don’t even bother trying to explain to people unless they ask about what platforms I use and why. And I still think it’s great that alternative platforms exist, I sure as hell wouldn’t discourage people from using them nor do I think the developers should just give up because it seems pointless. A little is better than nothing.
Oh, but there is one thing Lemmy can replicate. [email protected]
description: “For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can’t post anywhere else.”
Yeah I have actually thought of making my own just on a home server but I doubt I’d be able to get all of my mom’s friends to use it.