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Developing a Lemmy client to have a Facebook-like experience? (Personal profile, groups, pages, etc) (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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starting out with an unpopular opinion: of all the centralized social media platforms, Facebook was always my favorite.

Why? it is the most full featured. Has threads, reactions, groups, "Pages", polls, and it even has granular privacy controls (for hiding content from other users, not to be confused with Facebook's privacy violations and commercial data use).

This makes me wonder, could we have a Facebook-like experience using Lemmy as a backend? similar to how lemmy has a phpBB experience using lemmyBB.

Lemmy already has threads, and communities can represent groups. Pages and user pages can be simulated with communities.

We would be missing polls and reactions, which I can live with. I am not at all mad that we would be missing content algorithms either.

Although we can't make it identical to Facebook, I think it will get reasonably close and exemplify most of the good parts.

I am thinking to take this project on, but wondering if people have thoughts, if this already exists, or if people would even want to use this.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My issue with Friendica is it consumes more resources, making it much more expensive to host, especially at scale.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It also has way more features, which might exain the extra resources. I'm sceptic but would love to proven wrong that Lemmy would fare any better with a bunch of FB-like features tacked on?