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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 21

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Brian Acton

    Want to #deletefacebook? Don’t. 1. Sign up for @MastodonProject 2. Get on @wire and/or @signalapp 3. Write up a post on Facebook telling your friends about these alternatives and that they can find you there (& on your own web site if you have one). Then #deletefacebook :)https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/976231995846963201 …

    Aral Balkan added,

    Brian Acton @brianacton
    It is time. #deletefacebook
    1:26 AM - 21 Mar 2018
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    • Andreas Basurto 🌹 Robert E. P. Levy Kevin Camellini NanoMan Fabián Hickethier Emil Gelev elpasajero Sugoi Strigoi Amer Harb
    13 replies 120 retweets 205 likes
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      2.  🛏️ 🛏️ 🛏️ 🏥‏ @VikOlliver Mar 21
        Replying to @aral @NorthwardsDS and

        @Mastodon vs. @joindiaspora, a summary pls :)

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 21
        Replying to @VikOlliver @NorthwardsDS and

        The former are usable.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Youri Ackx‏ @YouriAckx Mar 21
        Replying to @aral @MastodonProject and

        First tweet I read is this one, after I just understood why I could no longer connect to my #mastodon account on http://mastodon.rocks . Oh, the irony. And yes, the nightmare.pic.twitter.com/glPDTEHM6s

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 21
        Replying to @YouriAckx @MastodonProject and

        Nobody said freedom wasn’t messy ;)

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Fredrik Aurdal  🇳🇴‏ @FredrikAurdal Mar 21
        Replying to @aral @alanduric and

        @wire looks very promising, not the kind of security issues like what Telegram has

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. Spicy Tanager‏ @sptanager Mar 21
        Replying to @FredrikAurdal @aral and

        I was excited by Wire at the start but i've been really disappointed with it. I stick to @signalapp as much us possible

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Wire‏Verified account @wire Mar 22
        Replying to @sptanager @FredrikAurdal and

        Do you mind sharing specific feedback on what went wrong? Always looking to improve.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Mie Oehlenschläger‏ @MieOeh Mar 21
        Replying to @aral @MastodonProject and

        Hate rain on your parade, but Mastodon is still to difficult to use for laymen...

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Isaac Lyman‏ @isaacandsuch Mar 21
        Replying to @MieOeh @aral and

        I'm not even a layman and I don't understand how to get started with it.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Mastodon‏ @MastodonProject Mar 21
        Replying to @isaacandsuch @MieOeh and

        Mastodon Retweeted Mastodon

        https://twitter.com/MastodonProject/status/976197194595360769 …

        Mastodon added,

        Mastodon @MastodonProject
        Here's how you can get started with Mastodon: Open https://joinmastodon.org/#getting-started … and you'll see a dropdown: You can select from a bunch of presets, like "I am an artist" or "I am a journalist" to see matching communities. Click on a community to create your account. That's it!
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      5. Isaac Lyman‏ @isaacandsuch Mar 21
        Replying to @MastodonProject @MieOeh and

        Thanks Mastodon. The problem is that I don't know how to gather the information I'd need to commit to a community and don't understand the ramifications of picking one over another. Also, I'm a lot of things (dev, musician, writer) and I'm bilingual, so how do I negotiate that?

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. James‏ @JamesGecko Mar 21
        Replying to @aral @MastodonProject and

        Is there a decent event information alternative? Even when I didn’t use FB much, the private event pages were extremely common/useful. Much less noisy than group text messages.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Dadregga‏ @phanboy_iv Mar 21
        Replying to @JamesGecko @aral and

        There's stuff like Meetup, but no third party solution is ever going to clear the hurdle of "your friends are already all signed up and can see what's going on"

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Mandar Vaze (Tech)‏ @mandarvaze Mar 21
        Replying to @aral @puresight and

        What about @telegram ?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Monty Dickerson‏ @puresight Mar 21
        Replying to @mandarvaze @aral and

        Nope.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. End of conversation
      1. pip010‏ @ppetrovdotnet Mar 21
        Replying to @aral @petrakramer and

        also see @matrixdotorg

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. @acb@mastodon.social‏ @andrewcb Mar 21
        Replying to @aral @MastodonProject and

        IIRC, Facebook’s algorithms suppress any posts pointing to competing means of contact from surfacing in people’s visible timelines. You have to find the people you want to keep contact with and individually notify them, ideally by zero-knowledge encrypted message.

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      1. Mick Mavromatis‏ @mickthegrit Mar 21
        Replying to @aral @Tresorit

        What about Diaspora? @joindiaspora

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      1. Argha  🇮🇳 🏏 📚 💻‏ @galaxy_argha Mar 21
        Replying to @aral @MastodonProject and

        Use @ThreemaApp... It does not even require sim card.. No email /phone number based login. At present there is nothing like @ThreemaApp.

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