I love the idea of friendica but until my mother can upload a video and view it on a feed it’s just not going to work. I’ve tried it out many times over the years and I just can’t recommend it as a Facebook replacement for nontechnical users, not even just for sharing with family.
What we need is a replacement for Facebook marketplace. Only boomers use Facebook socially these days. But marketplace has everyone by the balls.
There’s flohmarket.
Isn’t Craigslist still around?
Best I can tell 2 billion people use Facebook every day.
Either Facebook marketplace has the trade volume of a medium-sized continent or there are way more boomers than you think.
As is often the case with Meta stuff, anglo people and westerners in general tend to think usage works in ways it just doesn’t. There are entire parts of the planet where Facebook never died and is THE social network, if not the Internet.
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This, and I think Flohmarkt is not enough. Many craftsmen only publish their researches and sell their works on Facebook, for example Adam Bodorics Swordmaker. Their crafts are excellent, but they don’t appear anywhere else. The only choice I’ve made now is sadly just avoid them.
I’ve been noticing more ads posted up in the neighborhood recently, I feel like people who are off Facebook are looking for new ways to contact those outside their social circles.
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It’s time for some wholesome minion memes 🟡
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I just learned that Friendica admins can put down a reason for an instance’s defederation.
Fb was successful because it targeted small groups to start. I think 8 universities, one was western. They got to be ubiquitous there then slowly expanded. So people could see why it was desirable.
Picking up random people from around the internet hasn’t worked on the multiple attempts starting with diaspora.
That’s great. Then we only need to make one of those every day for five thousand years, give or take, and we’ll catch up with them.
