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…
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)
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…
Which of these are the Facebook ones?
Friendica, but it s still …uh…far from ideal. It is a start, though.
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: