The Great Migration 🚀
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The Great Migration

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️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG
️ https://pixelfed.org
FB
️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok
️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube
️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp
️ https://signal.orgEthical. Federated. Open.
Spread the word

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The Great Migration

X
️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG
️ https://pixelfed.org
FB
️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok
️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube
️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp
️ https://signal.orgEthical. Federated. Open.
Spread the word

@dansup @matrix @xmpp
Japanese owned Viber is a good alternative to WhatsApp.
You can setup so only people in your phone contacts in advance can send, so then no adverts. Group or individual, with a group moderator. Text, voice, images, file transfer and Video.
Encrypted.
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@techindepth27 Okay so maybe nothing changed, and that is how I used to find it as well: Only findable through search engine. It simply cannot be found using the Signal website.
@LightningToaster Yeah I see that.... that's probably not a good sign
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@MartinaNeumayer @dansup @kitkat Molly, a fork of Signal that, among other things, has already removed Signal's dependency on Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging by replacing it with UnifiedPush and their own MollySocket service, is also working to implement an open-source version of the server under the code name Flatline: github.com/mollyim/flatline-pl…
@csolisr Yes I know about it. But the problem with Molly is that, that they doesn't support older android versions anymore. If I remember correctly, the lowest system version on which the app can be installed is 11. Anything older isn't supported, which is pretty big unfortunate for many people.
Btw.. Original Signal also offers two different versions of their app without google blobs included and with UnifiedPush. They are available on their page and from F-Droid repositories. -
The Great Migration

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️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG
️ https://pixelfed.org
FB
️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok
️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube
️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp
️ https://signal.orgEthical. Federated. Open.
Spread the word

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@csolisr Yes I know about it. But the problem with Molly is that, that they doesn't support older android versions anymore. If I remember correctly, the lowest system version on which the app can be installed is 11. Anything older isn't supported, which is pretty big unfortunate for many people.
Btw.. Original Signal also offers two different versions of their app without google blobs included and with UnifiedPush. They are available on their page and from F-Droid repositories.Hold up, mainstream Signal has finally integrated MollySocket then? -
@pwm Looks interesting, I don't think I've heard of Deltachat before. By far the biggest issue with new messaging apps is you have to get everyone you're talking to to switch too and I just got most of them to get Signal so I don't think I'm going to be able to get them to switch again lol
@techindepth27 @pwm just wanted to say that actually Delta's onboarding mechanism is the simplest and fastest i've seen. Start it the first time, write your name and that's it. Because it's not linked to a phone number nor pre-existing email, you don't have to go hunting for a confirmation link/code. Made the transition super smooth for a bunch of friends here
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Hold up, mainstream Signal has finally integrated MollySocket then?Never mind, there is a version of Signal without Google libraries, but instead of using UnifiedPush like Molly does, Signal falls back to direct WebSockets, which requires much more battery consumption in the background unfortunately. github.com/signalapp/Signal-An…
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Its really too bad but it seems like Friendica isn't coded efficiently.
To a large degree Mastodon is working the same way, but the focus on friends first make it a better entry to the Fediverse for those coming from Facebook.
Really wish it performed better. Perhaps people smarter than me will get around to a complete rewrite. Probably in Rust.
Friendica is a dinosaur that predates Mastodon and prides itself on being hostable in any web host that accepts PHP with versions as low as 7.4. A Rust rewrite would no longer be Friendica, unfortunately. There's also the zillion forks of it (Hubzilla, Zap, Osada, Streams to name a few) and those, too, are still based on PHP. -
Friendica is a dinosaur that predates Mastodon and prides itself on being hostable in any web host that accepts PHP with versions as low as 7.4. A Rust rewrite would no longer be Friendica, unfortunately. There's also the zillion forks of it (Hubzilla, Zap, Osada, Streams to name a few) and those, too, are still based on PHP.However! Friendica very recently released a new version that finally does something about the slow queries, by adding a cache for network channels. It also includes a few quality-of-life improvements. friendi.ca/2026/01/27/friendic…
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The Great Migration

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️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG
️ https://pixelfed.org
FB
️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok
️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube
️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp
️ https://signal.orgEthical. Federated. Open.
Spread the word

Linkedin -> https://nolto.social/
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The Great Migration

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️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG
️ https://pixelfed.org
FB
️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok
️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube
️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp
️ https://signal.orgEthical. Federated. Open.
Spread the word

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Linkedin -> https://nolto.social/
@zleap its a vibe coded thing that doesn't federate at all, and lies on the front page about what it supports, why are you spreading this link
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The Great Migration

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️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG
️ https://pixelfed.org
FB
️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok
️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube
️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp
️ https://signal.orgEthical. Federated. Open.
Spread the word

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@gimulnautti @dansup @matrix @xmpp how come? what's the story?
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The Great Migration

X
️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG
️ https://pixelfed.org
FB
️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok
️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube
️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp
️ https://signal.orgEthical. Federated. Open.
Spread the word

@dansup sadly, friendica was badly broken when i tried it. and i thought one point of federating was you would only need one account on one service and you could interact with other services on the fediverse. is this not the case? i still dont know how it works because ive only tried to add ppl from bsky, and i guess thats not actually federated, so it requires a bridge i didnt want to mess with. i have a hard enough time finding friends on diff masto instances.
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@dansup friendica is horrible. just horrible, the other apps are great, but still have weird flaws. like in mastodon, if I see a post that is really really really really long it takes forever to scroll past it, especially if this person spams. there is no "see more" text to a long text. and in mastodon just replying to you, is a small window to the left of the post.
peertube won't won't without money for the creators, somehow.
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The Great Migration

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️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG
️ https://pixelfed.org
FB
️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok
️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube
️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp
️ https://signal.orgEthical. Federated. Open.
Spread the word

So why don't you do it properly? It's not that hard:
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️ https://friendi.ca
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YouTube
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️ https://matrix.orgYou're welcome.
Fuck Signal.
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@dansup LinkedIn → ? Someone should do that, just sayin’
I found one a couple of weeks ago and made an account but lost the URL and it seems to be completely unsearchable.
Maybe someone else will post it in the replies but that isn't really a good sign.
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The Great Migration

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️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG
️ https://pixelfed.org
FB
️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok
️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube
️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp
️ https://signal.orgEthical. Federated. Open.
Spread the word

