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I know I've made the jump to Mastodon, and now lemmy. But what are the other sites that I'm missing out on?

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[–] strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 1 points 1 year ago

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> very few people have an entire extended friend group looking to figure out what a decentralized federated Facebook would entail

Indeed. It's a real swiss army knife of a platform, hard to even spec out a replacement. I had a go at that here a few years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201023210758/https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/public-webspace

I'm sure I wrote out a more developed summary of this as a blog post, but I can't find it right now.

@DaisyLee @deadsuperhero