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I've been missing an alternative to Facebook that I can use for non-anonymous planning of events and communication in hobby groups etc. and I had never heard of any of the "Facebook-type" federated stuff before!
Now I just need to convince a bunch of people that this is viable to use without being the annoying guy...
Which of these are the Facebook ones?
Friendica, but it s still ..uh...far from ideal. It is a start, though.
It literally started in 2010, almost six years before Mastodon.
If you're looking for something that is to Facebook what Bluesky is to pre-Musk Twitter, it doesn't exist.
Otherwise, "the Facebook ones" are: