I do a presentation of the Fediverse to my college students and will soon be giving short workshops to organization as well. I realize that a viable, decentralized altenative to Facebook is IMO the biggest missing piece of the puzzle. We need something that offers some kind of central platform for networking, events, groups, etc. For work related stuff I present Nexcloud. Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed and Loops are getting really interesting and working alternative to their counterparts. I believe if we could get a massive movement of people to adopt an FOSS alternative to Facebook, everything else would easily follow. What do you people think, what would you recommend? I haven't tried Friendica yet.

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[–] skribe@piefed.social 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

agree with the scaling issue. i tried an instance with 300 members and it was too slow to use,

[–] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes if it's that old then if it was possible to fix it's problems then surely they would have by now...