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   Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 11:00:20 JST Dan Gillmor

   Terminated my accounts at Meta's Instagram and Threads...

   Now working on helping my community set up a possible alternative to our very useful Facebook group. Leaning toward WordPress/BuddyPress but open to (serious) suggestions.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 11:00:19 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @dangillmor what about a Hometown server? It's a spin of Mastodon that allows local-only posts, so you can have private discussions within the server.

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     KielKontrovers Blog (kielkontrovers@norden.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 14:08:55 JST KielKontrovers Blog

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     @dangillmor #Zulip ist similar to #Slack and also allows participation via browser.

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     Life is Tetris (tetrislife@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 14:09:40 JST Life is Tetris

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     • Tero Keski-Valkama

     @tero @dangillmor fostering community participation including scheduling events seems closer to the digital democracy space. Multiple options exist there, a simple effective one is #Loomio - itself developed by a co-op, hosted or self-hosted, trivial sign-up/sign-in (e-mail login), discussions, voting, etc. Example digital community if you want feedback: https://codema.in

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     Tero Keski-Valkama (tero@rukii.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 14:09:42 JST Tero Keski-Valkama

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     @dangillmor, I'm also considering starting up a bunch of social websites/forums to gather similar-minded people together locally.

     So far it hasn't started well because people don't really search the web anymore, only Facebook.