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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

In Vermont, an ultralocal social network is as popular as Facebook

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In Vermont, an ultralocal social network is as popular as Facebook

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

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In this rural and highly progressive state in the northeastern United States, a local social media platform called Front Porch Forum has managed to rival Facebook and Instagram. It's a low-tech, algorithm-free, neighborhood-centered alternative.

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In China they have WeChat and nothing can beat it, absolutely nothing
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  WeChat is very much state sponsored social media over there right?

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