Tired: Inviting Facebook users to Mastodon.
Wired: Inviting Facebook users to Friendica.
Hired: Inviting Facebook users to Hubzilla.
Desired: Inviting Facebook users to (streams).
Admired: Inviting Facebook users to Forte.
Misfired: Inviting Facebook users to Lemmy.
Expired: Inviting Facebook users to diaspora*.
Fired: Inviting Facebook users to Bluesky.
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Mastodon has been the standard and in fact apparently with no alternative during the various Twitter migration waves. But Mastodon is a wannabe Twitter clone and not an appropriate replacement for Facebook. Those who invite Facebook users to Mastodon either don't know that there's more to the Fediverse than Mastodon. Or they haven't understood the Fediverse, they want to get into/stay in contact with those who come over from Facebook, and they can't for the lives of them imagine that Mastodon is federated with anything that isn't Mastodon. Or they're fanatic Mastodon supremacists who are fully convinced that Mastodon is best at everything. Or they simply can't stand the thought that someone could join something that isn't Mastodon.
Friendica was launched in July, 2010, fourteen and a half years ago, five and a half years before Mastodon, and it was designed as an alternative to Facebook right away. Not as a clone, nobody wanted to make decentralised 1:1 clones of anything back then. But as something that's actually better than Facebook with features that Facebook can't offer, but that (not only) Facebook converts may find useful, while keeping everything that a social network needs. It's the only Facebook alternative in the Fediverse with native mobile apps available. But it is not the be-all, end-all Facebook alternative.
Hubzilla came to life in early 2012 as a fork of Friendica by Friendica's own creator. It was created to implement the Zot protocol and nomadic identity. Originally named Red, renamed Red Matrix the same year, it was renamed and rebuilt into the "decentralised social CMS" Hubzilla in 2015. Its wealth in features is second to none in the Fediverse, its security and access permissions control is only matched by its own descendants. However, it also has the steepest learning curve of everything on the list. Still, the Hubzilla community is trying to get its share of Facebook refugees.
(streams) is from October, 2021, a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork?) of Hubzilla by the same creator. And it's officially and intentionally nameless, brandless, not a project and released into the public domain. It's slimmed down in features from Hubzilla while still having features that Friendica lacks, it's dramatically slimmed down in non-nomadic connection options to only ActivityPub, but it's a lot easier to handle than Hubzilla because its handling has been optimised for the modern-day Fediverse and the way it's most likely being used. However, it is almost completely unknown outside of the Hubzilla community, and it needs both more users and more public instances. Getting people on board, however, is made more difficult by the few public instances being almost impossible to find.
Forte is a (streams) fork by the same creator yet again from August, 2024. Essentially, it's (streams) without specialised nomadic protocols, only relying on ActivityPub even for nomadic identity and being the first to do so. Thus, it is highly experimental and potentially unstable, and it doesn't have any public instances. Still, a few people who aren't Forte's maintainer have set out or want to set out to try it, maybe even as a daily driver. If someone was crazy enough to set up a public, open-registration Forte instance for Facebook refugees, you could only admire their mixture of fearlessness and insanity.
Lemmy is sometimes seen as an alternative to Facebook by those who reduce Facebook to its groups. But it's similarly far away from Facebook as Mastodon: It's an all-out Reddit clone. While Mastodon doesn't support groups, Lemmy supports nothing else. In addition, you'd have Facebook users, most of whom don't even know that something like Internet culture exists, end up in a place where shitposts, dank maymays, petty downvotes, power-trippin' mods and rampant xenophobia against anyone and everyone who wasn't raised on Reddit culture lurk around every corner. The same thing that's the natural habitat for Redditors who make up over 99% of all Lemmy users.
diaspora* is considered the first Facebook alternative by those who don't consider Google+ the first Facebook alternative. However, not only is diaspora* pretty lack-lustre in comparison with Friendica and its descendants, but it's constantly shrinking. Shortly before New Year's Eve 2024, several big pods shut down, and depending on the statistics, diaspora* may have lost over half its users. Also, diaspora* may be decentralised, but it barely has any connections to the outside world, all of which were established from the outsie world (Friendica, Hubzilla, Socialhome) because diaspora* is not interested in federating with something else.
Bluesky has as little to do with Facebook as Mastodon. It's something entirely different from Facebook. It's an all-out Twitter clone. Basically, switching from Facebook to Bluesky is akin to switching from Facebook to X. Bluesky may not be as ripe with Nazis, but it's for-profit, it's practically a centralised silo, and its enshittification is running at full steam. Whoever invites Facebook users to Bluesky out of all places hasn't understood anything.
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