Like, for real - companies and organisations sign up to Mastodon and then just expect people to show up.

But you gotta post on Facebook / Twitter / Threads / Instagram / whatever, to say:

"Hey! Look, we have our own accounts on Mastodon. Go get the Mastodon app and follow us over there!"

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I would argue that it really depends on what "Facebook", "instagram" and "whatsapp" mean for this person.

I think we don't really have a valid alternative to the Marketplace for example.

Instagram is pretty much covered by Mastodon and Pixelfed, but would it work at scale? (with millions or billions of photos and videos to store and moderate)

Whatsapp is a lot harder. I don't think that Matrix is a good alternative and unfortunately Signal is under US influence too.

I already wondered who makes this good work! (Clicks link).

I think one problem is that people await a 1:1 copy of these platforms, but why should we imitate them with all their inherent bad sides? FB's strength are their groups where people can talk with their whole village or meet all gardeners of their region. Easy, intuitive for absolute non-techies. I can't do that in the Fediverse. But we don't need a FB clone to invent such places.

Erledigt ✅

Danke für deine Arbeit! 👍

Depends. Do you defend the murderous border regime of the eu with its concentration camps and the support of the genocidal israeli state?

If no, I'd be interested.

Yes, as long they don't bring the #ageverification and #digitalid shite over those places as well ! There are already very good alternatives to #whatsapp that don' t even require a phone number e.g. @session @Jami 🤘

People value their privacy, as long as it's that's the core you are developing #socialmedia around instead of abusing their data !

well, Airbus was a success
and CERN is a success

so maybe the EU should hire the managers of Airbus/CERN to run this ?

but seriously, how many years does it take to build up the knowledge and infrastructure to store Tb of data with safe backup hardware/software ?

a lot of skill just in that alone

and moving libre offic calc into the modern era is a huge task, just by itself

I just want old reddit, where real humans made whole threads of terrible puns and the experts posted long, detailed, passionate, rambling essays on their subjects. I *loved* that. I love reading those conversations.

I miss that.

Another upvote for your team's efforts then. It is delightful to see how EU presence is expanding on the fediverse since EUVoice and EUVideo and 3-day workshop ActivityPub for Administrations by SocialHub.

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/pu…

Facebook? Like .... what?

Would you be able to write down 10 features you feel are provided by facebook?

I don't understand this question. The actual THING is stupidly easy to make. Hell, I was often impressed with how weirdly primitive Facebook is, given when it exists. (Some earlier platforms were much more sophisticated.) The thing itself is easy to do. It's the PEOPLE USING IT and how it's managed that make the difference, and that's been done many times and can be done again.

Just make something and see who shows up, and try not to let it get out of hand. Why is this even an issue?

Vote done ! Finger crossed ! Thanks for promoting Mastodon and the Fediverse !

For a Facebook alternative linked to Mastodon through ActivityPub, it's here : friendi.ca/

The overall alternative is already there. It is called the Fediverse. It needs money for servers and people taking care of them. And people like you for promotion.