Other than this forum, what are the moderately less evil socials? Is twitter evil? Is reddit? Pinterest? I feel like reddit was evil and now maybe isn’t?
Buzzfeed?
Medium?
NB: edited to clear the water
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What kind of content?
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It depends on the website - socials are a link and graphic. Medium is articles. Buzzfeed is articles, listickes and quizzes. Forums are positive engagement and a profile link
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local or broader scale? who is the target audience?
(I probably still don’t know the answer, but I suspect that knowing those things will help people who do be able to provide better pointers)
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I’d like to hear about it if you’re ever feeling up to it.
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I think that I’m just rephrasing to ask which social media are less evil. The rest was late night typing that’s muddying the issue.
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Litsy is the best social media. It is for books. People are mostly nice; it’s owned by LibraryThing, a small company; there are no videos or gifs (most posts have pictures, but they’re not required); and everything is in reverse chronological order with the option to block hashtags.
I love Litsy.
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Reddit on a whole is evil. Occasionally you can find lovely subreddits with good people.
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How does signal (messaging) make money?
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Starting in 2018, via a donation-based nonprofit. Original funding came from grants supporting free speech/open internet/open source projects.
(source: wikipedia)
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Thank you!
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I bought 2 mega millions tickets. This of course means I’m going to win, right?
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This. I was skeptical at first but it seems legit
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Yeah. You’re good. Enjoy the high!!!
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Yayyyy.
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So many thoughts because I worked in internet policy orgs and also marketing:
Depends how you define evil I guess. If it’s quality of audience, you’ll need to have something that is great at creating communities, because free for alls are always shit. So reddit or Facebook.
If it’s privacy protectiveness, literally no idea. I have long assumed they’re all bad at that. 
I think social media is probably generally bad for our brains. That said, I think that there are some good ways to use all of them.
Facebook is great for reaching large audiences, especially older people who have higher tech barriers usually, so it’s super useful for nonprofits like mine that serve this audience. It also has really great community tools and access to a huge user base to make those communities active and helpful.
IG has been so great as a space for smaller movements to grow and start disrupting norms in beauty. Whether it’s midsize fashion or health at every size or the widespread support of BLM, it’s got really great niches.
FB and IG both have cheap, effective advertising that significantly reduced barrier of entry for small businesses, which, as a medium size nonprofit, we use extensively. It ran into issues with politics ofc , which is tried to address with lots of transparency, and there are privacy concerns.
Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest have been aggressive on combatting misinformation re politics and covid.
Twitter is a free speech champion. Yeah it didn’t shut down 45s insane ranting fast enough, but it takes its role as a platform for speech seriously, pushing back on US and other govts, even if it sometimes misses the mark.
Facebook recently launched tools for black creators. I recently stumbled upon some of Twitter’s initiatives to ally with the LGBTQIA community. Those are the only platforms I know of that are really trying. Pinterest got slammed for being shitty to black employees recently.
Instagram has pretty great retail options, as does Pinterest, never tried em tho!
That was a lot, sorry. I typed this as I walked back and forth trying to get Meowlet to sleep.
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Linked in is stupid.
Lol kidding.
But like only a little.
(Great for business to business and personal brand building. Ads are more expensive than FB but arguably higher quality audience targeting.)
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This is all great, thank you
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I think LinkedIn sucks in all aspects. But I do have a profile…
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What sort of material do you plan to post?
Videos, photos, links, longer text, etc.? That may influence your selection.
FB seems to police any photos or videos that show bodies - and seem to usually target the informative items rather than the actual porn-ish or exploitive stuff (or at least that’s what makes the news).
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