Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

• shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There’s a couple contenders but they’re not very good. I think most FOSS people don’t WANT a facebook alternative; they’d prefer to keep their IRL identity separate from the internet. And the people who don’t care also don’t care enough to want to go federated.

  There’s spacehey as a myspace alternative though. That’s pretty neat but it’s full of teenagers unfortunately.

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• gheesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Friendica aims at that. I’m not sure about the results as I haven’t tried it.

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  • deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It still needs polish, but the biggest deficit is lack of adoption.

    Platforms like Twitter encourage casual breaks between public and private space, but Facebook-like platforms are better for passively extending existing friendship circles. Or so it seems to me.

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Diaspora, too, but I’m not sure how active that project is nowadays.

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, honestly Friendica has been around for ages at this point and I assume is pretty damn mature in terms of most features… what is exactly missing here that it isn’t even worth mentioning by name when talking about replacing Facebook?

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I believe you’ve hit the nail on the head, the only people I’ve noticed that really want such a social media account are generally people who were older than millennial, out of Millennials gen Z and gen A, I don’t really see much interest in a social media account that is directly linked to your actual identity. Most of them are more interested in a pseuado-anonymous style account that only asks for a username and doesn’t actually link you to a real world identity.

  Facebook was great in principle, it was intended as like a college student community and evolved from there, it was never meant to fill the goal of what the platform is doing today.

  As such as Facebook deteriorates, there isn’t a huge demand for a Facebook alternative, because the people who are leaving the platform aren’t actively seeking to replace what is lost.

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