I think that would be friendica. I haven't tried it but it uses the ActivityPub protocol so you should even be able to interact with lemmy and mastodon.
Diaspora
Jimmy ~~Page~~ Wales has been working on a beta of trust cafe. It's not federated yet but he's open to the idea. It's still pretty small and sleepy, don't go there yet. I like it the way it is for now. My best shit gets 8 upvotes lol
Facebook started out as a stalker/creeper site at Harvard, based on the model of the printed "face books" that colleges distributed with photos & names of students — which other students sometimes used to find sexy classmates.
It then expanded to other US colleges & universities, before opening to the general public.
This gave it an initial user base that was young, rich, & sexually active.
It's that, not the technology, which is difficult to replicate "in the wild".
fortunately I'm not trying to replicate young, rich and sexually active lol, I'm moreso interested in finding people near me with similar goals
Getting a critical mass of people to sign up for the service depends on having something to offer those people. In the case of Facebook, that offering was initially "this is where you can find your hot classmates" and subsequently "this is where the hot college students hang out".
I guess that's a good point. I might just have to be the one to go into some facebook groups I'm interested in and try to get people to move over to friendica or something
If you want to start a group with old, poor, and ugly then sign me up!
We saw the social network too
I didn't. I was working in IT at a college when Facebook launched, and they sent email spam to all my users.
Yeah, I was one of the students at those first dozen colleges when it rolled out.
This may be a silly question, but what is wrong with lemmy for this purpose? You're already there, friend.
Mainly the more anonymous nature of it, but I suppose I could make a community here for it too
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