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Chris Trottier

What most people need to know is that they social network without Big Social every day.

I’ve already mentioned email—which is a social network.

But also any kind of address book with calendaring is social networking.

Document collaboration too.

IRC and SMS as well.

Once people become aware of this, the notion of a Fediverse isn’t that big of a leap.

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Tim Chambers replied to Chris

@atomicpoet Even Signal groups, or iMessage groups have take over the role of secure private social networks for some clusters of family and friends...

Festive Leo ✨🇺🇦 replied to Chris

@atomicpoet Realistically, email is a euphemism for Gmail. Arguably Google isn't Big Social though given how bad they are at it

alternative_be✅🖖🏻 replied to Chris

@atomicpoet If only more people would see it that way.

Jae Bloom replied to Chris

@atomicpoet I have deactivated my Facebook and only use it for Messenger now. I miss some family updates, but also have been free of the anti-trans sentiments of some of my former FB friends. Even getting rid of Instagram has been so lovely. I don’t miss either platform.

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