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I'm looking for something where I can do some local community building, I'm guessing mastodon might work but I think the ideal is something like facebook where I can join a group tied to a common idea and a location, as well as being a bit more personal. Is there anything like that?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You can try one of the following:
Minds
Aether
Steemit
Pixelfed
Diaspora

No one in your locality is going to follow you there unless you can convince hundreds of people local to you to setup there with you.

[–] Mistymtn421 6 points 1 year ago
[–] fubo 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] fubo 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] beefbaby182 4 points 1 year ago

If you want to start a group with old, poor, and ugly then sign me up!

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Depending on your needs, take a closer look at Mobilizon (similar to Facebook Groups and Pages) or Bonfire (modular ecosystem with different apps).

I believe both are great federated tools for community building.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This may be a silly question, but what is wrong with lemmy for this purpose? You're already there, friend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Mainly the more anonymous nature of it, but I suppose I could make a community here for it too