What's currently (2024) the best self-hosted alternative for a Facebook Wall type of user experence?
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Sorry didnโt read your post thoroughly.
Immich comes to mind.
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I think that proposing immich for every use case out there is not the correct answer.
As much as I like immich, this is not a good use caseโฆ iMHO.
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Now read your own comment and reconsider if it actually made sense to post this
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To be fair, it is a very long-winded post. I think itโs not an uncommon use case, though, and so deserved a robust sketch of the desired solution; Farmville and chat are sideshows, and what the people left on Facebook are really there for are the Walls.
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I remembered wrong that immich has comment feature.
My thoughts of train was
What came to my mind missed your bullet points. Happy hunting.
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hubzilla! its privacy controls are unparalleled, can be used as a webapp on any platform, can be used for individual profiles, forums or for building our website. (https://hubzilla.org/page/info/discover)
I've been using it since a year and i am not disappointed.
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Tl;dr but:
If you simply want the best UX, then you need to stay with the real Facebook etc.
They spend millions and millions and millions only for UX. Free software can never compete, period.
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Have you used Facebook in the last 5 years?
The UX is godawful. More than half my feed is just random crap suggestions and ads.
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I donโt think they have the ux advantage that their wealth suggests due to misaligned incentives. A good portion of their investment is getting users to see as many ads as they will tolerate. Try to modify any privacy settings, for example, and the ux is as garbage as amazon.
Fediverse and self hosted, open source alternatives are still relatively new. Folks have to expect some turbulence. As things grow and more bug reports and contributions can be made, the ux could be superior because they can give users what they want instead of maximizing monetization.
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There are some excellent apps out there, and by and large they look and work better than commercial apps, IME. So I disagree with the assertion that I have to stay with commercial software.
What I was asking for, in my post, was not which apps have better UX than Facebook, but rather which of the very many OSS, federated (although, not necessary for my use case), self-hosted platforms fit the specific use, and ideally with a straightforward iOS mobile app. Doesnโt have to be pretty; just has to be able to quickly take and post photos to a private channel/community/wall.
Circles really is quite nice in all respects. I think theyโre hindered by their choice of backend. Iโve been using Matrix for years, and key management has always been a hot mess. I wouldnโt be surprised if the issues we encountered were related to Matrixโs god-awful and buggy PK negotiation & management process.
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Our family uses Humhub. Itโs pretty similar to Facebook and installation/maintenance is pretty easy. The only issue would be that thereโs no mobile app, however it works quite well on mobile browsers.
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isnโt Diaspora the most popular facebook alternative?
it also has 3 client apps on fDroid.
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Misskey is a federated facebook alternative I heard about on mastodon recently. Iโm not too familiar with it myself, but seems worth mentioning.
It has a โgroupsโ feature that might avoid the โinstance per personโ lemmy workaround you were thinking about. According to this comparison misskey doesnโt have a like button, but a few of its forks do. Not sure about the upload experience; may depend on the app. I didnโt see any clients listed on their site but did a quick search for an iOS app, which exists, so i assume android, too.
Sorry I donโt have more info, but I hope thatโs useful. Best of luck! Iโll be looking for a similar solution in the near future.
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Friendica, Smithereen or Hubzilla
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So what you want is a self hosted Flickr alternative, with extra privacy?
Please let me know your findings, Iโm very interested even though Iโm not in a position to contribute.
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Iโm not going to provide an answer here but more a point and perhaps complicate things a little more - With ActivityPub and other open Federated protocols - The Platform that you use and the client that you select can be different. I use a Mastodon account and Friendica account with FediLab as my mobile client. I guess you are looking for the feature set and then UI for both Desktop and Mobile.
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Exactly. Mastodon-ish would be unsuitable as a server for a number of reasons: the loose, but still expected, character limitation; the lack of emoji responses; generally poor threading support; and the overall subscription feed-like model. OTOH, itโs based on a follow-the-user model, which is nice. Iโm less familiar with Friendica, but AFAIK thatโs also a follow-the-user model.
The issue with Federation is the general expectation that these are public places. You can lock them down, but thatโs not what theyโre designed for, and in my case, the risk of misconfiguration exposing a bunch of toddler pictures that the parents want to keep private is too high. I think of the server is federated-by-nature, then it must also be paranoid-by-default; I donโt trust share-public-by-default projects to not introduced something in an upgrade that exposes data. At least if the base presumption of the developers is that all information is private by default, the risk is limited to true accidents rather than false assumptions.
ActivityPub is enticing. Itโs an exciting spec, and offers many client options. Iโm worried only about those base assumptions.
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