Facebook is awfully close to MySpace in its final convulsions - it’s slow, it’s buggy, and lacks focus! I manage over 30 pages, I get constantly banned for jokes, which some buggy algorithm considered “hate speech.” Once my personal profile is banned, I’m cut out from the business properties I manage - I cannot post on pages that are not my private property, but which were trusted to me to maintain. And when you’re banned, you cannot delegate other people to manage, so Facebook puts a bunch of 501©(3) public charities offline. This is no longer a place to do business and socialize - it’s a place to get banned and where you’re forced to create 2-3 backup profiles! And maybe that’s their goal - to claim they have more active users! I know no young person using Facebook either! So, it should be rebranded to ObituaryBook.
The fediverse equivalent is diaspora*, but I’ve never really seen much activity. It’s also not been adopted by people I know IRL, so I don’t feel much drive to use it.
I made an account on diaspora some time ago but ever since then I have been wondering what I am supposed to do on that platform.
Also friendica which I like but can’t get any friends to join. Friendica is also a little dated on its visual design.
I’m glad I didn’t make any friends on Facebook. LOL.
Facebook doesn’t need replacing, it needs to be yeeted into the sun. I’ll just DM anything I want people to see.
Its the idea that they are too big to fail. When their stock drops 25%, they can’t improve fast enough because they are too bulky.
Oh! the irony. Points out facebook is not the best place, that is killing itself, that would like for a replacement to thrive but, makes no effort to promote a reasonable alternative. Its like when people say they are hungry but could not decide what to eat so they end up eating the same shit they are complaining about.
“Here are two reasons why nobody replaced it yet” - Title
Yeah, but he did not wrote just a title, a headline, a a dictionary definition, or a tweet.
And?
…they end up eating the same shit they are complaining about.
They become part of the problem not the solution.
Ok, What do you propose as a solution?
- For the author or anyone who wants to point out the obvious is for them to propose solutions, or partner with other to seek solutions.
- For the problem with facebook is: for the people who are not too attached to it is to delete their account asap and seek more healthy social network(s). If you don’t want to delete your account but you don’t engage too much on it anyway then make it more private, and use it less and less while seeking more healthy social network(s). If you are a heavy facebook user that means you don’t value privacy (yours and everybody else), like being bombarded with Ads like a masochist, and already believe or is comfortable with frequent misinformation, and you are part of the problem; in that case I doubt any I say will change your mind, so you do you.
- As for alternatives there is plenty but I exhort you to look at the fediverse apps. Mastodon and Pixelfed are good starting point.
