{"id":508,"date":"2022-11-16T20:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"gid:\/\/art19-episode-locator\/V0\/Tjaggc0i95u6SPThrIxziVZrHhuOhVWbmLQNMvLk8OE"},"modified":"2022-11-16T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:28:42","slug":"social-media-alternatives-macos-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Alternatives &#038; MacOS 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4342\"><a class=\"wp-embedded-audio\" href=\"https:\/\/chrt.fm\/track\/7FB487\/rss.art19.com\/episodes\/27fa9711-7281-42d0-84d1-07232f7da880.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIgxCbHVicnJ5BjoGRVQ%3D--a8950c811add1124beefcda61e27f2a7f7825eba\">https:\/\/chrt.fm\/track\/7FB487\/rss.art19.com\/episodes\/27fa9711-7281-42d0-84d1-07232f7da880.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIgxCbHVicnJ5BjoGRVQ%3D--a8950c811add1124beefcda61e27f2a7f7825eba<\/a><\/div><p>Elon Musk has purchased Twitter? Wow&#8230;we all must be super excited about that! Well, not really&#8230;so maybe it is time to talk about alternatives for your twitter-like fix. Alan breaks down some of the possible alternatives for Twitter, their potential and limitations, and what to be on the lookout for if you are trying to make the switch.  In addition, we get an update on MacOS 13 (Ventura) and whether it is worth the upgrade at this point&#8230;as well as bring a couple of BiTs to the table.  A lot packed in an hour&#8230;give or take. <\/p>\n<p>Products\/services discussed in this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/joinmastodon.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mastadon<\/a>: The current front-runner for a Twitter replacement\u2026but there are some quirks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/counter.social\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Counter.Social<\/a>: Social media option with \u201cno trolls, no abuse, no ads, no fake news\u2026\u201d, but no users? Virtual reality as well?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribel.com\/public\/trending\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tribel<\/a>: Social media option with some nice features\/claims (morality, bigotry-free), but not quite the following.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tyme-app.com\/en\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tyme<\/a>: Time tracker for those who need to track time spent on multiple projects.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/dp\/B08BNPXSJ9\/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_MFVRHX6BE2VQ4Y8AM9SH_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Inateck External Had Drive Reader:<\/a> Provides ability to read from an internal hard drive\u2026even when it is not internal anymore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Hosts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alan Jackson (the older Brother) is a producer of online content with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejacksoncreative.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Creative<\/a>&nbsp;and survey researcher with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksoninsight.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Insight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Jackson (the younger Brother) is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificu.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific University<\/a>&nbsp;and Product Director\/Consultant at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/senaptec.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Senaptec, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have any feedback for the Brothers regarding this topic (or future topics)? Visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brothers-in-tech.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.Brothers-In-Tech.com<\/a>&nbsp;or email&nbsp;info@themesh.tv.<\/p>\n<p>See Privacy Policy at <a href=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy<\/a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has purchased Twitter? Wow&#8230;we all must be super excited about that! Well, not really&#8230;so maybe it is time to talk about alternatives for your twitter-like fix. Alan breaks down some of the possible alternatives for Twitter, their potential and limitations, and what to be on the lookout for if you are trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}