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.
@pseudo
True. We could do more with two tab :
- a live chat for mastodon where we can follow people
- a forum for lemmy
That would be my ideal software. :)
But in this case, I don’t think it is only about making UI. Or it would be making UI for a twittovers software rather than threadiverse software.
Don’t you think?
@pseudo it would be making a software that contain both software separated with a tab. And the ui will improve its navigation.
Have you ever tried a forum with a live chat ? What if we remplace this live chat with matodon post ? :blob_coffee:
I see. It will need to manage two accounts but it is doable.