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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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I havent tried it in the recent years. Is it coming togheter? Like with groups, events, etc?
It has all of them, but it's bare bones and doesn't scale well. The instance where I have an account regularly falls over - sometimes for months at a time. Most of my friends there haven't returned.
I don't feel it's currently a viable Facebook alternative, and it would need monumental amounts of work for it to become one.
I had a browse of the code recently. It's really well put together, I think they have a great foundation it just needs to be optimized. I'm hopeful about friendica.
Really ? Isn't it the oldest Fediverse project?, i remember having a go a decade ago. I still have an account but it seems broken.
Yes if it's that old then if it was possible to fix it's problems then surely they would have by now...
Everyone has already recommended friendica, but there is also hubzilla which is a fork of friendica and has much more. Its relatively unknown but very powerful, also there is this family of platforms that are for smaller communities for facebook alternative, friendica, hubzilla, streams, forte. You might want to give these a try, friendica is the oldest but others have evolved and have better ui/features and superb privacy controls.
links:
#^https://github.com/friendica/friendica
#^https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core
#^https://codeberg.org/streams/streams
#^https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte
It's not a matter of software choice, in my opinion. It's the network effect. Everybody is on Facebook.
Despite its falling out of favor of the younger generation, it still has massive inertia. There's also the issue of (I think) the overall weariness of being on social media. The halcyon days of that is over; it has become a utility at best.
I think part of the reason I enjoy the fediverse is that it reminds me of the old Internet: loosely connected, federated but independent. We had irc for chat, usenet, and mailing lists. We had like half a dozen IM platforms and tons of bulletin boards.
With that in mind, the solution may be to just let the fediverse evolve: let people find the media that works for them, whether they are into photography, music, politics, whatever. Use the software that makes sense. You don't have to declare a victor.
The real threat isn't Facebook: it's centralization and censorship. The more distributed and heterogenous your ecosystem is, the safer you will be.
One huge problem is that most people on Facebook neither know nor care what sinister things Meta are doing to them. Everyone thinks they're immune to propaganda, and most people don't understand the true extent with which they're being tracked or what's being done with that data.
I haven’t tried Friendica yet.
The answer is Friendica.