# Should We recommend some ethical social media?

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/should-we-recommend-some-ethical-social-media/26073
**Category:** Guide Suggestions
**Created:** 2025-03-23T21:44:22Z
**Posts:** 4

## Post 1 by @anon80779245 — 2025-03-23T21:44:22Z

This is intented to be a reflexion about whether PG should recommend certain social media (incl. but not limited to Mastodon, Bluesky, etc.), and if so under what criterias.

In my opinion, any recommendation would need to be accompanied by a guide on how to use social media in a private manner.

I have a few more thoughts about this, but I will first let the community answer and develop them after.

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## Post 2 by @anon10852480 — 2025-03-23T21:48:16Z

Mastadon & Lemmy maybe. But how’s Bluesky an ‘ethical’ social media?

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## Post 3 by @jonah — 2025-03-23T21:49:02Z

Previous discussions:

> **[Reconsider Social Network and Social News Aggregator recommendations ·...](https://github.com/orgs/privacyguides/discussions/195)**
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> I feel like these sections need reconsideration. Let's start with the Social Network section, most of what is recommended are just generic federated services which do not really solve any privacy p...

[https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/953](https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/953)

> [@Nostr (Decentralized Social Media Network)](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/nostr-decentrilized-alternitive-to-twitter-edward-snowden/12069):
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> Promoted by Edward Snowden (on Twitter), is this viable option for people, that look for the most privacy, and security respecting Twitter. It’s open-source, and they claim censor-ship resistant. I’m skeptical, but if someone has additional information, or could review the code on their GitHub page, that would be great, and also the most popular client for Nostr protocol.

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## Post 4 by @redoomed1 — 2025-03-23T21:52:34Z

Also

> [@Recommend Fediverse or other social media platforms?](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/recommend-fediverse-or-other-social-media-platforms/16060/1):
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> Shouldn’t Privacy Guides recommend alternatives to social media, instead of only recommending frontends, which are only useful to leechers? That might make sense, since Privacy Guides uses Lemmy (=ActivityPub).  
> I understand that a recommendation for an entire platform is impossible, because the privacy policy depends on the instance, but you could put a warning to alert the user to that.  
> Currently, what are the recommendations for people who really want to interact on a social media, beyond leeching ?

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## Post 5 by @jonah — 2025-03-23T21:53:06Z

Duplicate of [Recommend Fediverse or other social media platforms?](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/fediverse-why-how-recommendation-on-pg/16060/1)