I rank the social networks like this, in order of being the actual owner of the things you are publishing:
1) Fedi (self/community-hosted)
2) Nostr
3) Fedi (Someone else's server)
4) Bluesky
5) Telegram
6) All the horrible-corproate-fuckbollocks
I rank the private message apps like this, in order of how actually private they are:
1) Matrix
2) Signal
3) Whatsapp (though, yes, the content of the messages you send with your surveillance app are encrypted, but it is still a surveillance app, FFS)
4) Telegram - This is not even a private message app, this is a public not-encrypted message app. Why is it even on this list? It might as well say "email".
5) Email.
Which ones do you think my actual friends prefer?
#fedi #nostr #bluesky #telegram #matrix #signal #whatsapp #email