So cool that the community is also present here. I'd like to suggest Friendica as an alternative to Facebook. What's Friendica? Well, for starters, it's a decentralized alternative to Facebook also compatible with ActivityPub, just like Lemmy, Mastodon, PeerTube or Pixelfed (in fact, I'm posting this right now from Friendica). Unlike the aforementioned, Friendica has been around for longer, it's pretty much the oldest project in the Fediverse still active.
Friendica is not just a Facebook alternative. It has much more stuff that you won't find on Facebook, such as:
- The ability to follow RSS feeds and receive articles straight to your feed, along other posts from ActivityPub.
- The ability to follow other decentralized protocols still out there, such as diaspora* - where the platform having the same name didn't bother adding AP support - so you get the best of both worlds
- The ability to log in to other social networks such as Bluesky or Tumblr, and see your feed straight from Friendica (more on that later);
- Server owners have the ability to install add-ons, which add extra stuff - from themes, to functionality, to compatibility with other social networks, essentially acting like a dedicated app for them, but getting their feed into the Friendica feed (it even had a Facebook add-on back in the day, before it was shut by Facebook).
- The ability to format your posts using BBCode (Markdown is also supported via an add-on, but will be converted to BBCode after posting), as well as comments or your entire profile.
Plus many more stuff, excluding stuff that was generally used by Meta to track and profile you.
There are plenty of servers, including one administrated by the same team behind mastodon.world and lemmy.world.
Go check it! ๐
See also: !friendica@lemmy.ca.