Having found Bluesky to replace Xwitter I’m now looking at my Facebook usage. Facebook is going further downhill than ever with the recent dropping of fact checking (US only at this time) and the proposed use of AI to generate content. The content I see is already pretty much >90% not generated by family and friends so it takes a lot of wading through to find things I’d like to read.
I’ve been looking at options…there’s Diaspora*, Trust Cafe and a few others. None particularly well know or widely used.
After looking at options I discovered that Trust Cafe is the new name for WT-Social. WT-S was launched in 2019 and I created an account back then. I didn’t use it though because at the start the system was pretty empty and had hardly any users! There are some users, and content, there now so I thought I’d start using my account and have a look at what the system is like. Am I the only weather-watch user or are there others of you already using it?
Of course using something and convincing others to use it are two very different things. However, if I start to use something other than Facebook maybe I can encourage a few people to move and therefore start to reduce my Facebook usage.