• thebestaquaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    I’ve been missing an alternative to Facebook that I can use for non-anonymous planning of events and communication in hobby groups etc. and I had never heard of any of the “Facebook-type” federated stuff before!

    Now I just need to convince a bunch of people that this is viable to use without being the annoying guy…

        • Jupiter Rowland@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          It literally started in 2010, almost six years before Mastodon.

          If you’re looking for something that is to Facebook what Bluesky is to pre-Musk Twitter, it doesn’t exist.

          Otherwise, “the Facebook ones” are:

          • Friendica (intended to be a Facebook alternative from the very beginning, designed to federate with everything that moves)
          • Hubzilla (fork of (a fork of?) Friendica by Friendica’s own creator, currently the most powerful piece of server software in the whole Fediverse, basically a federated Swiss army knife that can do Facebook as well)
          • the nameless thing in the streams repository (not in this graph, fork of a fork of a fork of a fork… of Hubzilla by Friendica’s and Hubzilla’s creator, less feature-laden than Hubzilla, but more modern and evolving at a rapid pace, the most advanced piece of server software in the whole Fediverse, but instances are hard to find)