hello recently i deleted my facebook and im looking for good decent alternatives for facebook what options are there?
You’re on it. Start posting content, tell your friends to hop on and post content.
Try Friendica first. If it’s not your cup of tea, here are a few others:
- Firefish
- Mastodon
- Akkoma
- GNU Social
- diaspora*
- Hubzilla
@YugiohMaster88
not at all tbh
when firefish was still calckey, it was a thing > but for a variety of reasons, the project came to a standstill, and two other misskey forks took the lead: iceshrimp and sharkey > as strange as it seems, firefish has already become some kind of legacy ware
moreover, the *keys have federation issues, especially when it comes to lemmy, but kbin is also heavily affected
@hellfire103
Writing this from Friendica. I have never used Facebook, so I’m not entirely sure how people use it. BUt if you want to use a ethical platform to organise events, the best option is probably Mobilizon. If it is for general information and entertainment, I recommend Friendica (or Mastodon, which is smoother, but less flexible).
I don’t organise events much, but heard of https://gancio.org/ which is supposed to be much easier to host than Mobilizon. Just throwing in another alternative.
Friendica, Mobilizon and Hubzilla can all be compared to Facebook. I have an accound on Friendica and I like how well it supports federation with all Fediverse platforms, from Mastodon to Lemmy.
@Masimatutu
i agree, and i also recommend friendica!
TBH you’re going to have to work against the network effect. The benefit of Facebook is that most people are on there, and you probably won’t be able to recreate a network with the same reach on any alternative — the privacy benefits of not being on Facebook are vast, though.
I would advise you not to pick a single new platform or service to replace fb but consider something like ActivityPub as a wider network that can connect your different profiles on the Fediverse — see https://fediverse.party/ for examples. You’re already on Lemmy, so there’s a start.
Others have already suggested Friendica and Hubzilla as fb alternatives. I’ve used the former in the past when the Fediverse was still not as developed as it is now, and I think with the user growth it will be a fair substitute for Facebook. The big benefit, as I said above, is that both Friendica and Hubzilla are ActivityPub capable, so you should be able to follow users and profiles on Lemmy, Mastodon, Writely and Pixelfed alike.
