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[–] Mars2k21@sh.itjust.works 59 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Going to play devil's advocate here.

Bluesky is just...better than any Fediverse microblogging platform. In terms of UI, discoverability, and keeping a balance of users in the community.

Mastodon sucks for regular people. And none of the other better platforms like Firefish ever gain enough steam to beat Mastodon because of existing issues in the structure of the Fediverse and ActivityPub (this also includes Mastodon itself to an extent).

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

The other issue is, nobody is trying to take on Facebook. Not really anything in the FLOSS community like it.

[–] gheesh@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months 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.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

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

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months 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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