The issue isn’t federation, it’s the onboarding and “style” of social media.
Also I don’t think there is a Facebook equivalent is there?
If people weren’t on Reddit they aren’t gonna care about Lemmy. The Facebook crowd need a good alternative before they will migrate.
My queer FB friends have been moving to Bluesky, which is frustrating because I’ve been on Mastodon for a year. But, whatever. I can deal with two accounts.
As-is, no, but an app with a slick dumbed down interface that all we nerds already here despise and equally slick on-boarding flow that hides all the “technical” details could
Friendica for Facebook
Pixelfed for Instagram
Loops for Tiktok maybe, Haven’t tried either though
Choice of XMPP/Signal/Element for whatsapp
Your average person, let alone tech illiterate boomers, is never going to hop on to federated services.
Except all the people switching to Bluesky?
The issue isn’t federation, it’s the onboarding and “style” of social media.
Also I don’t think there is a Facebook equivalent is there? If people weren’t on Reddit they aren’t gonna care about Lemmy. The Facebook crowd need a good alternative before they will migrate.
My queer FB friends have been moving to Bluesky, which is frustrating because I’ve been on Mastodon for a year. But, whatever. I can deal with two accounts.
Bluesky is still a good win for us! Not perfect for many, but still a damn good step in the right direction 😁
As-is, no, but an app with a slick dumbed down interface that all we nerds already here despise and equally slick on-boarding flow that hides all the “technical” details could
Just need to frame it right. Facebook is full of <insert country they don’t like> propaganda, frendica is much harder to not.
Pixelfed is also good enough that Zuck is actively blocking it, so we’ve got one.