Some great thoughts by @pluralistic
A number of us are stuck on #facebook due to lockin by friends and family. Especially those of us that have migrated to other corners of the globe from those friends and family.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba
@pluralistic @alpinegreg “Federation is to social media what fire-exits are to nightclubs: a way for people to escape if the party turns deadly:” exactly.
We need our own alternative to #facebook. Kind of like #owncloud or #nextcloud, if you will, but for our social media.
@pluralistic @alpinegreg what aspects of FB do you feel would translate here? Groups-pages-or the address-book aspect? Or something else? I’m not familiar with either cloud!
So, I think a successful FB successor needs to be something independent and federated. Mastodon does Twitter reasonably well.
I guess #FreeBook, as I would call it should run on federated servers. Users could publish their own feeds, kind of like ATOM (should have said RSS) worked for with blogs. You put your feed on your server and people that know you subscribe. You should be able to unsubscribe people as well. Should handle various media well.
@alpinegreg @AllysonShaw @pluralistic what features do we need? A friends feed, sure; a robust groups feature. Events. Pages that serve as a landing spot for small businesses. Hm.