Declaring Metapendence – Alternative Social Media Options

Last week, I made the decision to leave all Meta services, including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. That doesn’t mean I’m leaving social media, just the corporate owned services. I already left Twitter thanks to it becoming a home for fascists, including its owner. Fortunately, there are plenty of options out there, starting with the Fediverse.

As Italian filmmaker and photographer Elena Rossini describes in her video Introducing the Fediverse, the Fediverse features a number of services, including microblogging, photo sharing, reading tracking, and even video hosting (which is how Rossini published this video, in fact). Unlike corporate social media services, which are closed off from one another, Fediverse accounts can “talk” to one another. For example, I can follow a Pixelfed photo sharing account from my Mastodon microblogging account. This allows me to see their posts in my feed and interact with them, which they will see in their feed. Also unlike corporate social media, Fediverse services are decentralized similar to email, with multiple servers across the Internet hosting various services. My Mastodon account, for example, is on a server hosted by the This Week in Tech podcast network (twit.social).

You can find all of my social media accounts, including my Fediverse accounts, by checking my Social Media Links page. Feel free to view and follow me so we can stay in touch.