Recently, most images on Facebook have stopped loading for me. Sometimes it’s just a few images. Other times it’s almost all images. The longer I scroll, the worse it gets. Today, I couldn’t even see my own pictures. Are any other Firefox users having this problem, or maybe it’s a server issue on Facebook’s end?
@TheBaldness whatever service is degrading for me and have an alternative to is a service that I have an incentive to stop using. Friendica is so much better than Facebook. I never expected I would use it the way I use it today.
I don’t use Facebook. Unfortunately, my neighbors use it to communicate. That’s the only reason I have it. I’ve also used the marketplace, but prefer Craigslist.
@TheBaldness I just have it because I’ve used it for so long and not everyone is on other platforms. Or if they are, they’re still Meta owned anyway. But since I’ve been on the Fediverse, I found myself using it less and less.
Okay, you got me curious about Friendica. Do you know how it works? Like, is your data always kept on your server, or is it more of a Fediverse model, where your data is replicated across all your friend’s servers as well?
@TheBaldness it’s an ActivityPub alternative to Facebook, kinda. Just like Lemmy is for Reddit or Mastodon is for Twitter.
You do have more privacy options, though, like, you can create a post and only allow visibility from a person or a group of people (let’s say people that follow you but you also follow back, lists of people etc.)
There are other alternatives using different protocols, such as Diaspora (where the ownership is different, as in, if you create a post, all the comments below it belong to you as well, I don’t know how this works), or Hubzilla which uses AP to communicate with other networks, but uses a protocol called Zot internally.