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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 @pluralistic what is ATOM? Right—I’m not a web developer-but I’m interested in alternative platforms that might entice people to migrate. It seems the appeal (and downside) with FB is that it works like a town hall but also a yellow pages (dating myself here) of everyone you have ever known.
ATOM is what some weblogs use to notify reader clients that there is a new post.
But I really should have said RSS instead of ATOM.
There are dangers to posting when I've not had my morning tea yet.
@alpinegreg @pluralistic Morning tea is everything! I think the average Meta user wouldn't even know how their 'feed' is delivered. In the past, people have tried to get me to use RSS feeds and I resisted until I found RSS Parrot here--which I found really easy to use because the instructions were so clear.