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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[–] Steve@communick.news 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What you're looking for is Friendica.
Don't try to screw things together with a hammer.

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 4 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Hammer don't hurt em!!!