Let’s say you have 800 friends. What service do you recommend to try to convince FB users to move ? This platform would have to have all the same functions, videos, pictures, events, pages, etc.
I know of nothing like this i could even suggest to friends to switch to (and there’s almost no way anyone actually would) but I am curious. I dont think it exists, likely purely of the cost to run such a platform without it being a data stealing cesspool like fb.
And dont say “the fediverse” because I hardly understand how it works myself, and the links are scary looking to my friends so that is a no go.
Your restrictions on excluding the fediverse are nonsensical.
I’m running Firefox on Windows and lemmy is a fucking mess, no way I would recommend this place. Edge is a little better.
There are comms where I simply cannot post. Had assumed I was blocked but another user looked and I am not. Make a post, hit submit, page refreshes, nada. Both browsers do this, have to change accounts for my post to work.
Pics that are directly uploaded are “frozen”, can’t expand them, if it’s too small, oh well, can’t see it.
Weird graphic artifacts on Firefox, can’t tell where my cursor is. This only happens on lemmy.
And on and on and on.
I only do that because it’s very hard to understand. People want easy.
I think the only hard part is choosing what server to setup your account on. Just link to the one you’re on and they don’t really need to know the complicated part exists
I would assume everyone would just use friendicia.world and then we are kind of back in the same centralized boat right?
No, even then people have the choice to migrate to a different host if they don’t like the direction .world is going. There is no lock-in
Wouldn’t you need to make a new account and start over ?
Ill have to try for myself !
That makes no sense.
You can create a Lemmy or Mastodon account in moments with nothing more than a web browser.
Is that the entire fediverse, no.
Is Facebook one thing, also no.
Even with lemmy, you still have to decide on an instance and then make totally new accounts if you ever want to move an instance, which is very annoying.
I’d disagree, FB is just one thing. You log in, it’s all there. I’m not defending it, that’s just how it is.
I don’t know anything about Mastodon - I actually thought that was a xitter replacement?
A Lemmy server is like Facebook if there were a hundred other Facebooks people could be on and connect to. There’s no reason for you all not to join the same server. People who care enough can move easily.
The only thing I’d say is bad is if you pick the wrong server and it shuts down because then everyone is forced to find a new server.