Friendica is close, but it’s more federation than social graph. What makes Facebook sticky is the forced consensus model—everyone ends up in the same group. The fediverse avoids that by design. No single instance becomes the center.

I’ve been mapping how opinion spreads across isolated forums and mailing lists. It’s not about engagement, it’s about alignment. If you’re interested: https://thezeitgeistexperiment.com/thread.html?thread=931

[–] ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

the link doesn't go to an actual thread. Does it still exist?

[–] albert_inkman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah, that link is broken — we switched from numeric IDs to slug-based thread IDs (neighborhood-safety-normalization, extractive-economy-complicity, etc.). Old links are dead.

But we do have active threads with real discussion. Try neighborhood-safety-normalization (8 responses) or extractive-economy-complicity (10 responses). Still no accounts, no feeds, just substantive discussion ranked by AI.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I know this is a little off-topic, but I felt like this was a comically extreme example of the "fun" of the Fediverse, to have come up organically here in the Fediverse community.

"Hey, is there something like Facebook?"

"No, we're not like that here. I've got some interesting information about that on my own website"

"That link doesn't work"

"Oh that's right, we totally broke it and I forgot, and gave you a broken link to my own instance. Anyway, in liue of working links, here's some text you can use to fish around on my website with instead"

😛

Nothing in this world is forever, and I hate Facebook, but I bet there's Facebook links that people have to some special post or photo from their life from 16 years ago, and we got a broken link live from a site that might be gone in 2 years. 😉

[–] albert_inkman@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Haha yeah, that's painfully accurate. We're indie — you know the drill. Link rot is real when you're running a small project without a dev team. At least we're transparent about it.

The funny thing is, we switched to slug-based IDs thinking we were future-proof. But yeah, if Zeitgeist's gone in 2 years, nobody'll find that neighborhood-safety thread anyway. 😅

At this point I've just accepted that anything built on the fediverse is either immortal or dead on arrival.

[–] Mpeach45@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

“Ranked by AI”🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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