Facebook won’t ever recapture that old feeling. But Friendica has it.
OG Facebook?
They will ban my racist uncle and require a college education again?
I have the tiny luxury to not know what anybody’s talking about because I have never had a facebook account.
Woo!
It was useful and fun, not facebook as a company but the community and meeting people you havent in a while or otherwise never would.
I am still hesitant to delete my dormant account for the one or two people I met travelling that I may look to bump into again if I visit them or they me.
So, are they going back to where every post starts with “is”?
Has anyone here installed friendica? I tried to give it a go yesterday with the the docker image. The login page is showing up, but it is giving me HTTP 500 errors when I click sign up I also get no errors in any logs.
I won’t know because I deleted Facebook.
The one where Zuckerberg was stalking his fellow female students, or the one where he was threatening people with their private data? You know, BEFORE he went mask-off pro-facist.
I think he’s talking about the one which fueled the genocide in Myanmar.
fellow female students
laughs in executive order
I see what you did there.
Maybe that one plus where the parties are this weekend.
As long as you can’t default sort by updates from people you actually want updates from, and omit the fire hose of unsolicited ads and propaganda, it will never even get a whiff of what it started out as.
Probably they’ll try to bring back features that cause people to interact more publicly, like poking. No way sponsored posts and ads are going away. For me it is an unusable app, way too little organic content on there. Marketplace is great though.
I ditched it in 2016 and haven’t felt a loss.
Fair enough! I’ve wanted to move the in-laws family group messages away from Messenger, but the family doesn’t see the point.
Marketplace sucks ass. Search is broken, get nothing but “is this available?” Because people accidently hit the button. Bunch of bored drunk people messaging you and wasting your time. Tons of scammers. I never had those issues with craigslist except for scammers.
Where I’m from we have an alternative website to Craigslist that has many, many more scammers and time wasters than marketplace. At least marketplace has your actual name and face tied to the account.
Not to say that those problems don’t exist on marketplace for me, just that it is the place where they are the least bad.
Just took a look at Friendica for the first time last night. It’s wild how something as simple as proper post formatting and wide open attachment options are enough to make me wish all my friends were on it. Way more personal feeling.
gently harass them until they relent and try it? let the website to phoneapp pipeline do its thing.
Too little (probably), too late. The platform has been taken over by bots with AI slop and forwards from Grandma and that’s damn near all that shows up in my feed anymore. I really hope Bluesky catches on
These days my most common action is to “hide” or “block” random posts that are in my feed from pages or groups I’ve never heard of. Blocking ads is more steps but I still do that for particularly egregious crap getting pushed on me.
Good luck getting all the boomers off there.
Don’t need all, just enough. The rest will leave when they die.
And you don’t have to convince everyone, just the folks in your life.
Removing sponsored posts is a good start… Also, sort by date for posts…
Freindica - hmmm tell us more…
Friendica - The Un-Social Network.
For real. There’s no one there.
Why is there a whole Friendica directory if there’s no one there?
Do you have siblings? Are they on it? How about cousins? Aunt?
Were your siblings or cousins on Facebook before that became a thing?
I’ve deleted the Facebook app off my phone, and started just checking in once or twice a day to see if any cool trips are being planned.
My feed is mostly sponsored posts and meme pages now, and that’s not what I’m there for.
Facebook seems to have forgotten what their site is supposed to be for, which is connecting with people you know.
That’s what you thought it was for. It was always for profit. Their goals and yours may have just better aligned before. Once they achieved mass addiction they had the ability to decouple their profit strategy from your perogative.
I mean, there’s a reason they’re going back to the old Facebook, or are claiming to. You need people to actually use your platform to make money off them.
The classic three step process of enshittification:
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Draw in users with good stuff and lock them in with the network effect
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Use the large user base as bait to draw and lock in businesses and other figures wanting to pay money to throw their message at said users
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Squeeze users and advertisers for all they’re worth until the exodus starts to a different platform.
You’re hired!
I think they’ve realised they’re at 3, and are backing off a bit.
Probably. There is no user growth anymore at facebook and what’s happening at X shows the network effect can work in reverse. As soon as a certain amount of (high profile) people leave, a lot of their followers go with them, what triggers others to pack up and it’s downhill from there.
With X, Musk has gone full mask off, and there is a clear successor to the platform, which means sticking around isn’t really defensible.
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I know they would follow Fortnite.
