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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[–] Fitik@fedia.io 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think the Friendica might be close to what you're looking for, it's not the Lemmy UI, but you can both follow Lemmy communities and different people from there, it's feature-rich like Facebook, and the feel is pretty similar as well

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ok.......now make a FOSS myspace. I hearn of SpaceHey, but apperently that's not open source, and there's no guarentee that it's not one massive spying operation.

[–] bluelion@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe Hubzilla?

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago

It's cool too, but it's more like it's own thing