Who has moved to Librem One?
What services did you ditch?
Did you bring friends or family? 😀
https://librem.one #Purism #LibremOne #privacy
@wnymathguy Great question. I haven't used Facebook in several years, to tell the truth, and even when I was, I was mostly using it for news (which I curate myself, these days) and just keeping up with friends and family. I certainly agree that Mastodon is really more of a straightforward Twitter replacement. Never used Friendica, how is it? It is an ActivityPub system?
A post can be a mini webpage because of the BBCode interpretation. Their's so many ways to set-up a server and features that can be on or off that it's hard to explain. I couldn't find a good demo of Friendica on YouTUBE so I made my own lame one hoping it would prompt other people to make better ones. So far the only other ones are install videos or lame descriptions of it on commercialized tech review vlogs.
@iamjameswalters amazing welcome to the both of you!
@purism My brother and I switched, but no one else came, we are slowly working on getting people to change.
@TheGr81Ted welcome :)
After I get the Librem 5 in my hand I may pay for the subscription, but I'm doing a lot of the things on my own now. I think the VPN "Librem Tunnel" might be the most valuable to me because I just VPN off my own router as of now; not really anonymizing myself with that.
The Riot client "Librem Chat" is fun so far, but I can't get my head around how it's useful on a permanent basis yet. It seems like it should be a public place to meet with a bunch of people for a single purpose, then everybody leaves after. As of now, it seems a bit like drinking from the fire hose the way I experienced it so far. The Rooms that I have joined seem to have content go so fast that I can't keep up and leaves me with a feeling of missing something important or reading a lot of things I don't need to know about. I have been wanting to see what's up with [matrix] and Riot for over a year now, so I'm dabbling with this part happily.
The Mastodon part "Librem Social" I'm not too into because I already have 3 Mastodon accounts and two Frinedica profiles. It's like a real solution would be an aggregator interface program that would manage their (any Federated/ActivityPub type service) content and interactions instead of another splitter service dividing my screen time with another thing to sign in and out of.
The eMail thing is a gem, but since a couple of years ago, I do my own eMail all on my personal server so it's moot for me.
@wnymathguy thank you Michael. Matrix shines when you get your other contacts on to it, like WhatsApp but federated, private and secure.
Great to hear you got your own email setup, nice one!
@purism one of my friend (@danialbehzadi) opened account there. But i dont see his posts on my timeline unless i visit his profile or some of my followings fav or boot his toots. We cannot send direct messages as well
@ahangarha @danialbehzadi if you are following your friend's profile do you see his toots on the home feed?
@purism @danialbehzadi i dont see on home unless someone else boost or fav it.
@purism I got the family plan, my wife and daughter are using it, we mainly use the chat right now which is great. we used to use hangouts no longer. I'm not much of a social media person, but mastadoon seems interesting. Now the fun part to get my friends and family to start using it instead of fb messenger, one I get my librem 5 I'll be off Facebook for good (I already am, but just kept the messenger on my android for some ppl)
@mmanfredi amazing thanks for sharing. We can't wait to get you off Facebook for good ;)
@purism I happily ditched #Facebook so far! #Android #Smartphone will probably be the next thing for me to go west. ✌️ Family is still to come. ❤️
@dominik thanks for sharing Dominik, seems a few others n this thread also ditched Facebook. Looking forward to say goodbye to Android with you soon!
@purism I can't say that I really ditched any services. I've had my gmail since the beginning of gmail so I can't really get rid of it yet. I have set an auto reply notifying anyone that emails me of the change.
I want a Facebook or Twitter user before. Don't have a WhatsApp. And yours is the first VPN tunnel that I've ever used outside of work.
That said, I'm completely on librem one and I really like what you have done.
@jlcrawf we're glad you are enjoying Librem Tunnel Joshua :)
@purism I ditched Twitter after advertising for two weeks I was making the move. I don't know of anyone who followed my lead. :-(
@purism I use all Librem One services. The biggest change for me is using Librem Chat to talk to friends and family, instead of Apple Messages and SMS.
Librem Social is my first foray into Mastodon.
Love Librem Tunnel too!
@purism I did! I had already ditched Facebook, so this is a new social network for me. I brought my wife with me, and we don't SMS anymore, encrypted Matrix over Librem Chat!