Better yet, have a de-Google’d phone and don’t connect it to the car. Don’t see why it is “better” not to have one at all.

Yeah, don’t ever connect your phone to your car. It has been proven that they steal all your data.

Oh I have nothing against it at all, I just have no interest in watching them lol

Nothing elitist by any means. I’d love for everybody to come enjoy the Fediverse - it’s a cool place. But to be realistic, we all know that most people are too stupid to ever realize how much Big Tech platforms suck

I don’t even know what that means, so I guess I’ll never know. Perfectly content with my blissful ignorance haha

I like it!

Good. I don’t want to see some teenagers doing some dumb dance or whatever is on normie platforms.

Was the name by chance inspired by Stranger Things? Haha

Because then there would need to be a centralized entity to host all user accounts, and we don’t want centralization 'round here

It doesn’t matter. You shouldn’t go to an instance just because it has the most members. If we do that, we’ll end up ruining the Fediverse, because the platforms will just become centralized. In stead, find one that aligns the most with your values/content you want to see.

I don’t see why this would hurt us. But even if it did, I would rather take the blow than associate with Big Tech again.

Sure, but Signal is more of just a replacement for WhatsApp and the likes. It can’t be compared to this type of platform really.

I’m hoping that ALL admins across the Fediverse will defederate from Meta. At least we get to have our own separate platform then.

I heard that Mastodon isn’t great because apparently it basically turned into de-federated instances with power hungry admins. But I haven’t tried it out myself.

Thank you all! It seems like there’s consensus that Friendica is the one. I’ll probably check it out, but I’ll most likely not end up using it, since there’s no way all my normie friends will ever get on there…

Nostr is very active, actually, and works a little bid different than Lemmy. Go watch this video, it explains it very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIccRIEr2gQ

PeerTube, Odysee