No it isn't. It was (is) a social network, that is, an online space to keep personal connections and publish messages and responses. There is no evil in that. Also FB was a pioneer in public free APIs, and well thought out permission system, long time ago. Also they did integrations very well. Etc.
They became a data whore, but that's just a part of the whole story.
Hashtags are supposed to be from all the contacts
That's it. You cannot follow hashtags, you can follow contacts' hashtags (and local users' hashtags). No more.
Friendica
I do have a friendica server (https://fika.grin.hu/) and I am more or less familar with it. Can use s
No it isn't. It was (is) a social network, that is, an online space to keep personal connections and publish messages and responses. There is no evil in that. Also FB was a pioneer in public free APIs, and well thought out permission system, long time ago. Also they did integrations very well. Etc.
They became a data whore, but that's just a part of the whole story.
Hashtags are supposed to be from all the contacts
That's it. You cannot follow hashtags, you can follow contacts' hashtags (and local users' hashtags). No more.
Friendica
I do have a friendica server (https://fika.grin.hu/) and I am more or less familar with it. Can use similar relays as mastodon (yes, that's a thing! used to be, at least), but nothing really different.
FB as a bubble
Partially it is, but it is extremely simple to break out, since there is a public stream: you choose "sort chronologically" and get it without filtering and reordering. In contrast you cannot break out of an AP instance or a D* pod, since you cannot possibly see non-local posts, ever.
Bubbles are fine // semipermeable as an important part of the setup
So yes, if there is no permeability it becames an echo chamber; if there is permeability (unlike AP and D*) it offered the possibility for people who's more open than others to look for strangers.
My peers are my algorithm that create my feed of input.
Lucky you. Mine cannot order relevant from irrelevant, smart from stupid and meaningful from blabbering, and it's pouring. People have the habit to scream loudly about user feedback based order/filter systems like facebook but it works, in the normal everyday life, pretty well. Unordered unsorted AP (and D* and like) wastes a lot of time for me, since I have to read through a huge amount of bullshit instead of the machines would do it for me.
Years before the Internet became available outside universities, I was running a #FidoNet node, a network of #BBS which allowed users to exchange mail and post to discussion groups.
We were volunteer-driven and funded by donations. More hierarchical and more bureaucratic than the #fediverse: we had elections for administrative roles, a long policy everyone had to agree to, voting for policy changes...
